Re: Zooey rediscovered

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Mr. Bowman,

I agree with much of your post - F&Z has never sat very well with me, not
because of my inability or lack of desire to identify with any particular
members of the Glass family, but because I find it - not exclusively - somewhat
manipulative.

I wonder, though. For someone who in his youth believed he was every bit as
sensitive and dedicated as the Glass children, do you think that during the two
decades your volume remained unopened that you, rather than the text and setting
of the story, may have changed?

I don't believe it is possible for anyone to grow out of sensitivity...the crap
just piles up. I've read that story of the man discovering rotting carcasses
from his past. Hemingway, wasn't it?

I'm curious. Are you published? (FEWL&S has and will always sit very well with
me.)
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Steve Gallagher * sgallagher@lasersedge.net

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