RE: Book of the month quote?

I think it's just the Salinger thing, he thinks everyone should get the
privacy he JD) demands.

"Why can't we all get along"
Rodney King (before his lawsuit)

-----Original Message-----
From: lray
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:49 PM

>From Sonny's page apparently I saw this quote from the Book of the Month
club:
"I enjoyed the day but it isn't something I'd ever want to do again. I got
very oracular and literary. I found myself labelling all the writers I
respect...A writer, when he's asked to discuss his craft, ought to get up
and
call out in a loud voice just the names of the writers he loves. I love
Kafka,
Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Proust, O'Casey, Rilke, Lorca,
Keats,
Rimbaud, Burns, E.Bronte, Jane Austen, Henry James, Blake, Coleridge. I
won't
name any living writers. I don't think it's right."
I am particularly interested in JDS's not thinking it is right to name his
favorite living writers. Why is this? He is merely making a joke or does
he
find flattery rude? Or maybe my being young I have missed something rather
obvious. Would naming someone make that person more self-conscious or does
it
have to do with someone not yet having thought they reached their peak or
perfection and somehow injuring them and/or their craft by naming them.
Sorry
if this is a bit too obscure of a thread to start. Nonetheless, I would
like
to hear everyone's thoughts on this. Hopefully we can all discuss something

without insulting each other. We are all bananafish.
-Levi
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Received on Thu Dec 5 10:13:54 2002