Subject: Re: Calvino's If on a winter's night
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 15:26:58 EST
After sending the post below (and one to Jim) I received Tim's. Sometimes
I think JDS wishes that ALL we know and have are those four books, nothing
else, no photographs, no life of the author, no nothing, almost an ANON
situation. And that those all-alone four volumes just floated through time,
occasionally the finds of future amateur readers, or anyone who just reads
and runs.
--Bruce
PS: Imagine his life and career withOUT writing (or publishing) The
Catcher. And thanks for the compliment.
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From: citycabn <citycabn@gateway.net>
To: bananafish <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 12:15 PM
Subject: Calvino's If on a winter's night
>Yesterday, Tim mentioned Italo Calvino's novel _If on a winter's night a
>traveler..._. Anyone who loves books, anyone who loves reading (in other
>words, YOU) _has_ to read at least the first chapter, which
once-and-for-all
>describes the act of buying a book, the act of reading.
>
>(And thanks for the referral to Amis's _Time's Arrow_.)
>
>--Bruce
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