Re: Salinger again

Lisa M. Rabey (lisar@net-link.net)
Thu, 03 Jul 1997 17:18:06 -0700 

At 05:45 AM 7/4/97 +0500, you wrote:
>I resent--and am outraged by--this rank imposture ('charlatanry' and
>'humbug' are other words that come to mind, almost readily) and would like
>the not-so-gullible to know that though it actually  isn't me("I"?
>"Myself"? Oh, how I hate sounding almost like a George Harrison
>autobiography ) yet even if it were so, my trusty (and rusty, if I may add
>parenthetically) old German typewriter has had me pounding its keys far too
>long--religiously, painstakingly, regularly, habitually--to make such a
>rudimentary mistake as to misspell "avaible".
>
>I can almost see my alter-ego and collaborator, tragically long-deceased,
>Buddy Glass exhorting me vigorously to add, however, in a single explosion
>of candour, that instead of Short Stories my literary focus in the past
>decades has been on longer literary works, that may best be described as
>chronicles. It is a long term project, patently an ambitious one, as I had
>once correctly forecast; and  despite the real enough danger of, sooner or
>later, bogging down, perhaps disappearing entirely, in my own methods,
>locutions, and mannerisms, I say it with some small satisfaction that
>hitherto I have survived pretty doggedly (though whether or not I do indeed
>have a dog now is I leave for the magazines to speculate madly about in a
>crass efforts to boost their sales). On the whole, though, I continue to be
>very hopeful. I still love working on these Glass stories, I've been
>waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent
>monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill. 
>
>Please rest assured, however, that they--if and when published, I hasten to
>add and append-- most assuredly are *not* (darn! Even my typewriter can
>write in *italics*) going to be titled anything even remotely resembling
>"My Boyhood Years". (I still love the title "A broken record on a
>gramaphone needle". But that I just append by the way and has no bearing on
>the subject at hand.)
>
>P.S. I thank one of the Irish personalities on this list who has given me
>some food for thought vis-a-vis the possible amendments to the US
>Constitution. My lawyers better start working for the fat fees they have
>been charging me.
>
>P.P.S I refuse to have to give out my mother's maiden name as Marie Jillich
>to prove my authenticity. I consider it too much of an encroachment on my
>privacy. 
>>Your Friend and Soulmate
>>
>>J.D.
>>
>>
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>Sundeep Dougal (Sonny, to friends), Holden Caulfield, New Delhi, INDIA
>http://www.thepentagon.com/holden
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Aww sonny, you forgot to take off your signature file :)

*laugh*
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