Re: From Daumier to Smith
Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:46:14 -0400
At 18:54 09/17/99 +1000, Camille wrote:
>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.
I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but it may be relevant that
"Jean de Daumier-Smith" also has initials "JDS". Perhaps it's not young
Jean that's being reflexive. I hope this doesn't make good old Salinger
seem a bit...cheesy.
(P.S. I love how the phrase "in itself self reflexive" is technically
redundant three times and still makes perfect practical sense.)
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