Re: lemon yellow scar
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:29:45 +1100
rick wrote:
> 1) i don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but i know that
salinger and
> hemingway met during the big one in france & had a short, rather
cantankerous
> (i think) correspondence. i don't know if i can think of two people less
> likely to become pals.
Yes, and apparently (apocryphaly) Hemingway liked one of JDS's story so
much he shot a chicken which inspired the chicken-shooting incident in `For
Esme'.
Never could get into Hemingway myself.
> "I still have a lemon-yellow scar on
> the palm of my right hand." (that's not too long, vis a vis the copyright
> statutes, is it?)
>
> that was my diagnosis. from that point, i knew that i had banana fever.
bad.
Those two statements together sparked off a startling
stream-of-consciousness revelation. His scar - lemon yellow! Long, yellow
scar - the scar of a banana(fish)!
Camille
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