Re: Re: For Esme

No, it is supposed to be hate. Although I see where you get hat from, hate
makes more sense to me.

The first line of "For Esme" is what made me think of Buddy the most. "Seems
the competition is sweet like a slap in the face," because Buddy was always
accused of wanting to be Seymour, trying to compete with him, but all the
writing lines are very reminiscent of Buddy. Also at the end, "Esmé needs
her story now. So don't break down" is like, the second half of the story
when Sergeant X is going crazy, with the twitches and whatever else happens
to him. I can't really remember, it's been awhile since I read "For Esme."

I agree, there should be no choice.

Meghan

>From: "James J. Rovira" <jrovira@drew.edu>
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: Re: Re: For Esme
>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 19:02:17 -0500
>
>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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