Re: Salinger's world
Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@hotmail.com)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 02:22:14 -0700 (PDT)
>Now, it's not my intention to be impolite, but I really can't be bothered
>to
>pursue this discussion any further. It is an interesting discussion, to be
>sure, but not one I'm keen on clogging up the bananafish list with.
>Can't we all agree to keep this forum focused on more pressing matters,
>such
>as the sudden swooning of young bourgoise girls?
>
>/Sam
Poor Sam, I’m not blaming you for wanting out of this discussion. I always
congratulate myself when refraining from joining discussion like these, “how
to end wold hunger on the bananafish mailing list”, and instead put on my
biggest (and most hideous) laughing man smile and read only mode. And pretty
soon – yes! – someone is showing signs of fatigue. You could have fooled us,
Sam, but The Sherlock Man can smell distress like a fart in a car: “can't we
all agree…” – when you KNOW an agreement among fishes just won’t happen!
Seriously, Sam, if it is any comfort I really don’t see where Jim’s answer
to your one sentence came from (is the word “largely” really enough proof of
assuming what Jim does about Sam’s opinions? Isn’t it quite obvious what Sam
meant?) Is “ Today, the world's resources could be used to feed the hungry
and aid the sick, but instead it's used largely for luxury consumption” in
any way a stand-alone statement more naive than ” Most geographical
countries have the means to feed their people, most geographical areas can
sustain the people living on it. It's a matter of the people in charge
THERE doing their job.”
So much for not joining,
/TLM
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