Re: From Daumier to Smith
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:51:57 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 9/17/99 5:01:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
verona_beach@hotpop.com writes:
<< Not even the fact that he is telling the story to us? A question that was
always asked of me when I began writing but which always baffled me was:
why are you telling this story? Why has DDS chosen to tell this tale, out
of all his numerous hypothetical adventures? Isn't that in itself self
reflexive? Isn't that stepping out of yourself - or in DDS visiting an
earlier self who is vastly different from the person you are today? You
could even call this Salinger's recent major theme - that the JDS who wrote
nasty letters about Charlie Chaplin is NOT by any stretch of the
imagination the 80 year old man of today.
Camille >>
No, I think there are self reflective stories and non-self reflective
stories. I think some storytellers are more narcissistic than others.
Jim