Subject: Re: Burns, coming through the rye
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 21:42:49 GMT
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:25:15PM +0800, Will Hochman wrote:
> My understanding is that the song and poem are different...the poem
> was posted here and nicely adapted/translated by Scottie, but it
> isn't the poem was adapted as a song and I think the song left the
> poem long before cathcer...holden hears the boy sing it...and phoebe
> corrects and so it's not Salinger...I'd have to go listen to make
> sure that was my mistake and I can already imagine Jerry wincing at
> that one...but at least I did send follow up to Juan Williams
> explaining the point (thanks again to the bananafish who helped!) will
Whoops, I answered Suzanne before seeing this from Will. Yes, there
was the ambiguity in the radio show that made it sound as if we
thought SALINGER misunderstood the words of the poem, whereas it's
clearly the little boy who makes the mistake, and Holden remarks upon
it. (I don't have the concordance finished yet, so I can't give you
the page citation; sorry!)
--tim
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