Subject: Re: Have you seen this page?
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 12:25:42 GMT
--- Paul Kennedy <kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca> wrote:
> >
> >it appears that I'm turning into a harpy.
> >
> >
> >Regrets,
> >Cecilia.
> >
>
>
> But how about them Cubs!?!!?!?!? We're WAY after the allstar break,
> and they've STILL yet to see second place! This really could be the
> year!!
>
Wow, PK. Of all the messages in all the world, you walk into that one.
And quote that line. And then you manage to use an exclamation point in
not one, not two, not three, but eight instances. It's enough to give a
girl a heart attack. Good thing that the Cubs are in first place.
Regards,
Cecilia.
(Home, finally, from the friendly South.)
ObSal: More than one person has remarked that Salinger stayed away from
social criticism of the prejudice. It's been suggested that the reason
for his relative silence is that he was at the liberation of
concentration camps and in that, he found himself unable, or perhaps
unwilling, to address what was surely the hottest subject then, and now.
However, Salinger *did* write one story on the subject, one that
attacked the prejudice of the American South. "Blue Melody" was
published in COSMOPOLITAN in 1948, after he returned from the war. It's
the story of the death of Lida Louise, a Blues Singer, and the echoes of
that story can be heard in many of his later works, from the writer
introducing himself at the beginning and then taking himself out of it
to the broken record to an unabashed love of the Blues. It's a
fantastic piece, one that conceals and reveals all at once. So maybe,
between this story and "Down at the Dinghy", he felt that he had
addressed the subject? Has anyone else read this story?
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