Re: Love song of Alfred L. Theorist
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:10:55 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 9/19/99 5:50:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
rbowman@indigo.ie writes:
<< j) consider ...
Scottie B.
>>
Scottie, your point would be well taken if it applied. A connection between
a young woman saying, Take me to bed, and the Upanishads would indeed be
pretty odd, strained, and completely inappropriate. And you'd wind up pretty
lonely too :)
But the phrase, "inverted forest" is pretty odd. It's outside of common
experience, there's nothing in my life to contextualize it. I don't think
I've EVER heard that phrase, in fact, until I saw it as the title of
Camille's website. At least I don't remember it. And only after that did I
learn it was the title of a Salinger story. So it makes more sense here to
look for some connection between the title and Salinger's reading, because
somehow I doubt if he's ever actually experienced an inverted forest either :)
Tell you what, why don't YOU give us the obvious meaning apart from
references to Eliot or eastern literature -- one that's consistent with
experiences similar to a woman asking a man to take her to bed (in other
words, referents in our everyday lives), and consistent with the content of
the story as well?
I won't be holding my breath :)
Jim