Subject: Re: Bananafish the story
From: Chris Kubica @Home (@Home)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 15:55:33 GMT
And what are we to think of this?
Seymour likes the Wasteland?
Seymour is literate?
Seymour felt secure in the winter of his pre-war days and is "surprised" by
the summer of his post-war days?
Seymour is surprised by Sharon's name coming up so often the same way that
the lead of the Wasteland is surprised by summer?
Well? What's the answer? Anyone have JDS's phone number? I'm gonna call and
ask him.
Chris Kubica
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mike42082@aol.com>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Bananafish the story
> Chris writes:
>
> > Does anything is this line from Bananafish strike you as out of place:
> >
> > "Ah, Sharon Lipscutz," said the young man. "How that name comes up.
Mixing
> > memory with desire."
> >
> > What's that last bit all about?
>
> Dear Chris
>
> I think it's a reference to TS Eliot's "The Waste Land." Here is the
stanza below.
>
> April is the cruellest month, breeding
> Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
> Memory and desire, stirring
> Dull roots with spring rain.
>
> The full text can be seen here:
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2747/wasteland.html
>
> Your pal,
> Mike
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