Re: Teddy and Booper
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:28:31 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 9/18/99 5:52:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in writes:
<< Yeah right, as I have always believed that it was actually an inverted
paper-weight which inspired JDS's title more than that Eliot poem. Or
maybe it didn't. The answer eitherway is 42.
Sonny
>>
What's seven times six?
hahahaahahahahaahaha
Anyway, I've been enjoying your posts, Sonny, and esp. this one. I wrote
e-mail to a professor of mine recently about New Historicism (nothing too
much new about it to me except occasional Marxist and feminist premises,
otherwise Foucault's observation about parallels between it and Christian
Hermeneutics are pretty on target) describing the work of a NH critic as a
kind of overlay. Like taking a drawing on a piece of tracing paper and
laying it over a painting to see which lines match.
In some cases, no doubt, there will be obvious and inescapable parallels. We
might even be led to think the tracing was made from the painting. In other
cases no lines will match at all. But what about those in-between cases?
Where some lines match and others don't?
I think that's what we see with The Inverted Forest reference. A friend of
mine sent me his source on it, and I'll forward it to the list. But since we
already know that Salinger was interested in Eastern Religions, and quoted
the Upanishads and the Gita in his writings, I think the overlay is pretty
reliable here -- a high degree of correspondence between the lines.
Jim