alien worlds
Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:18:01 +0000
Well, Matt. If you say so. But how depressing.
You paint a picture of teenagers whose curiosity
doesn't extend beyond the end of Main Street &
whose emotional responses are limited to the tragedies
of High School.
In self-justification, I should have to say that in
a small provincial seaport in wartime Ireland there
weren't too many cosmopolitans eager to reminisce
about Paris in the Twenties or guide a newcomer
through the intricacies of European cuisine.
Finding out about all that stuff was simply an added
excitement to the electrification of discovering this wholly
new way the man had found to use words.
If Bananafish are truly confined in their imaginations
to what they already find familiar then the question arises:
what the hell are they doing on a list ostensibly devoted
to literature?
Scottie B.