Re: holden caulfield vs therapist
m.e. pierce (mepierce@sfasu.edu)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:56:30 -0700
Thanks Camille! But it is I who bow to you. I've visited your web page, so I
am aware of your illustrious writing career among other notable
accomplishments. And you're how old?? At your age, I was still so mixed-up.
I hadn't even read Catcher yet, for god's sake! Let me know if you are ever
in Texas and we'll drink some coronas while we talk Salinger.
*oh, and we'll eat humus too following our new bananafish recipe. As a matter
of fact, I make it frequently as my husband is a native of Israel.
Question: Does anyone know what happened to that Dr. Kevin Somebody of the
University of Florida or somewhere who built a web page inundated with
Salinger quotes just to see if Salinger would send in the Big Dog Attorneys to
shut him down? The splash page showed the good doctor in the tub reading
Catcher. It was really more an experiment in free speech on the cyberwaves
than an altar to JDS--maybe that is why so many of us didn't receive him well
during his brief stay at the Bananafish table. Remember?
Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
> ME Pierce wrote:
> >>Who has read this book and not thought, "this guy is speaking right to
> me" ? That is the phenomena of the novel--we forget Salinger; we forget
> any thought of a psychologist. It's just me and Holden against the
> world. We wouldn't feel this intimacy if we really believed that Holden
> is speaking to some doctor. <<
>
> YES YES YES YES !!! This is EXACTLY what I was talking about, exactly.
> Pierce, buddy, *you're* the kind of English teacher we all need to have (:
> !
>
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
--
M.E. Pierce
Dept. of English, SFASU
http://TITAN.SFASU.EDU/~f_pierceme/
"Are you a nobody too?" --The Belle of Amherst