Re: Re: For Esme

Hey -- in that Caulfield song, was the word "hate" supposed to be "hat"?

It was these lines that really made me think the song wasn't for Esme, but for Buddy (Salinger):

<<Never trust an artist who tells you he has a choice.>>

This is almost like Scottie saying if you can stop writing for six months and keep from going out of your head, you're not a real writer. The song is directed toward someone involved in some kind of creative expression.

<<You can't run faster than your voice. Sing your life despite the spite it may bring. It's your life to write, so sing. Just bring the drama shameless and crawling. Over glass and underground. Esme needs her story now.>>

Over glass -- I would say -- references the Glass family and obviously the artist is being told to "sing" his life. This sounds like poetry or even music something like this band produces, but it's words, anyhow. As in Salinger's For Esme, this artist is writing about his own life, but for the sake of someone else -- Esme.

If this song is really to Buddy, it could just as easily be to Salinger...their way of asking him to publish again. Could be, anyhow. It could be more generic, using Buddy the artist as a stand in for all artists, telling them to produce, to do their work -- because it's needed.

They shouldn't have a choice anyhow.

Jim

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Received on Thu Dec 5 19:02:23 2002