Re: JD Who?
Byrd, Steven T (BYRDS@papa.uncp.edu)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:03:08 +0000
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jean Hantman wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
> To: Bananafish <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:56 AM
> Subject: JD Who?
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> > When you consider the absolute avalanche of rubbish
> > over the past week or two - from my own senile flatulence
> > on the one hand to the generalised infantile hyperemesis
> > on the other - isn't it rather obvious that, on this list,
> > enthusiasm can be generated for almost any topic under
> > the sun EXCEPT the writing of JD Salinger?
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> > It's like belonging to a church where the clap-happy
> > Christians will play you their guitars & tambourines,
> > campaign for gay rights, sell you holidays to the Dead Sea,
> > enlist Christers for Clinton - do virtually anything to avoid
> > a consideration of the words & life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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> > Maybe the time has come to admit honestly that,
> > for most of us here, he's really an extinct volcano whose
> > modest oeuvre has now been wrung dry of all further
> > possible comment.
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> > Scottie B.
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> Is it possible to return to Jesus and banish the tambourines and tangents
> from the chapel?
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> Jean H.
If you do, the church goes grey and boring. Then what good is Jesus anyway?
--stephen icarust
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