Subject: Re: Imagine No Catcher
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 12:51:05 EST
CLARIFICATION:
Just wanted to say that my original post (which I shamelessly include below
in entirety) was half tongue-in-cheek, half not. But today, concerned about
any possible misreadings of the PS, I would like to enunciate clearly: I do
_not_ believe JDS or _The Catcher_ were in any way responsible for the
tragic murder of John Lennon.
--Bruce
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From: citycabn <citycabn@gateway.net>
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 11:47 AM
Subject: Imagine No Catcher
>Yesterday, someone wrote:
>
>>PS: Imagine his life and career withOUT writing (or publishing) The
>>Catcher.
>
>
>After leaving the slicks, the soon-to-be sensation of _The New Yorker_
opens
>with the bang of APDFB; dazzles a magazine audience with each successive
>story; a speculative publisher takes a chance on a first-book of short
>stories; modest sales, though respectful reviews, but with reviewers
>wondering when he's going to write a _real_ book, i.e., a novel; he replies
>repeating a short statement along the lines of being a dash man, not a
>miler; _Franny_ published and pregnancy question is the first "controversy"
>of his career (though school boards never hear of the story); _RHTRBC_
>(after a literary satori in spring of '55--documented by a yellowing letter
>on this desk) formally ushers in quite a crew that goes by the appellation
>of The Glass Family; two more increasingly eccentric stories about
eccentric
>family; _Franny and Zooey_ published without fanfare (no _Time_ and _Life_
>D-day assault of Cornish and author's previous life: hunt for the closet of
>girls) nor ensuing best-seller status; publishes one more book to poorer
>reviews; then a head-shaking story (even for _New Yorker_ readers)
>called, --what?--_Hapworth 16, 1924_; once sensational '50s _New Yorker_
>author goes silent; Cornish never heard of (nor destination unless one is
a
>fanatic fan of the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens); his work remembered
>only by a thinning crowd of older _New Yorker_ readers and earnest literary
>specialists of early post-WW II American Literature;his name never popping
>up in the press; the _three_ modest-selling books now long out-of-print.
>
>Imagine no _Catcher_.
>
>--Bruce
>
>PS: Yes, John Lennon possibly still alive.
>
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