The attic

Scottie, I have it on good authority that it was found in the wrappings of a
Friday evenings treat of fish and chips.

Daniel

At 11:34 PM +0000 on 3/25/2000, Scottie wrote:
> A party in 68 Highfield Road, Rathgar, Dublin in the autumn
> of 1951. The decidedly pissed Seamus Kelly, then literary
> editor of the Irish Times, is discussing an acquaintance whose
> taste in writing he had hitherto dismissed as totally risible.
> 'I said to him: ''Go on. Name me one short story of
> the last ten years that you liked.'''
> 'What he say?'
> 'You know what he said? He said: ''A Perfect Day for
> Bananafish.'''
> 'That's not bad.'
> 'It's bloody good. I didn't think he was capable.'

[and]

> This was the first time I ever heard the title & for the life
> of me I can't think how people in Dublin could have read it
> in 1951 (I'm sure of the date) unless in what were then pretty
> rare copies of the New Yorker.

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