Subject: Re: Hello!
From: Dan Owens (lorena@computer-services.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 1997 - 17:03:29 GMT
oconnort@nyu.edu wrote:
>
> Jennifer Kelly said:
>
> > I'm just going to add one more thing. While I was reading some Salinger
> > at one of my aforementioned brother's long-ass indoor track meets, a
> > mother of one his friends, who also happens to be an English teacher at
> > his HS, asked me what I was reading. So I showed her saying that I was
> > just reading it for fun, go to sleep with a good book, kind of
> > reading. She replied that if she were reading that it would definately
> > be simply for her 'go to sleep' kind of reading. Can anyone understand how
> > angry that made me?
>
> I've found that a lot of adults -- ESPECIALLY English teachers -- have a
> kind of backlash reaction to Salinger, as if he were an embarrassing
> enthusiasm that dates back to when they were younger and more
> idealistic. That's not fair to say; it's a sweeping generalization
> about people, but I've often run into that attitude. One English
> teacher I had would not discuss Salinger at all. He said, "Most of us
> consider him to be a minor writer," and that was the end of that.
>
> Don't let it make you angry. Lots of us have read Salinger in a happy
> trance and are not ashamed to admit it. (The first Salinger story I
> ever read was "The Laughing Man," when I was in the backseat of a car
> **as we drove down the highway along the Hudson River**, so I was able
> to look out the window and see roughly where the kids on the team would
> go to play ball. Now, there was a cosmic coincidence!)
>
> --tim o'connor
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> in the body of a message to "Majordomo@mass-usr.com".Jennifer Kelly,
Hi. Yes, I've noticed that about English teachers, and just
adults in general even. People keep telling me that Salinger is just a
phase of mine or whatever. Last night I was in a chat room and asked if
anyone read Salinger. Most people said no, but one person said, "he's a
little too chic for my taste". Suprise, suprise, she was an english
teacher. Anyway, just thought I'd tell you crap like that drives me
crazy too.
Also, yesterday, I found out about the whole John Lennon thing.
I can't stop thinking about it-it's really bothering me.
Jennifer O.
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