Re: jewish characters in Salinger
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:19:19 -0400 (EDT)
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>I just bought "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", A Puffin Book edition in
>paperback from the early 60's, with a cover illustration slightly out of
>focus to give the illusion of 3D- just beautiful! At a bookstand for $1, I
>might add! I've never read C.S. Lewis in English, and even though I planned
>to give it to a girl I'm dating (she is really fond of the Narnia-books),
>I'm almost tempted to read it myself first. Actually I have already started.
>
If I could type this in green ink (for 'envy') I would do so.... (Hey Tim,
do you suppose that's why you/we write in green ink?) What was it that
Hemingway said about Paris? (I'm paraphrasing:) "If you are lucky enough
to have lived in Paris as a young man, it will stay with you always, because
Paris is a Moveable Feast...." I feel almost the same way about Narnia.
I'll never regret reading those books when I did, but I almost wish I hadn't
because I'd then have that achingly wonderful experience to look forward to....
>How many parents are reading aloud from their old Pooh-, Narnia-, etc-books
>and wonder how they could ever put them away?
>
Well, I've got a bit of a problem with this one.... I actually DID try to
read Pooh to my daughter. It was a tough sell.... And the worst part was
when we came to The Enchanted Forest, and I had tears streaming down my
cheeks. It confused the heck out of my five-year-old to see her father cry
like that.... Now, of course, she knows that I cry during particularly
beautiful weather forecasts. I guess it's the Scots/Irish in me. There was
a wonderful Canadian writer (Hugh Maclennan--for anyone who wants to read
his work) who once penned a line I almost live by: "To be a Celt is never
to be far from tears"
Have a box or two of tissues handy!
Cheers,
Paul