Re: Rimbaud
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 22:17:10 -0700 (PDT)
>No matter how subconscious - I've gone back and looked
>at things I wrote and seen instantly how characters were inspired that
>never occured to me at the time. On the other hand, Salinger may have
>consciously had self destructive child-genius figures in mind when he came
>up with Holden - Rimbaud, Thomas Chatterton - who knows?
>
>Camille
Or a next-door neighbor or family member. I say again: I truly believe that
JDS could not have written certain things, certain personal ties, unless he
had intimate knowledge. Although obviously a writer careful at the craft &
inspired literarily by the Greats, in truth, his story conceptions are based
on things he has lived or witnessed.
By this, I don't mean that he's seen someone shoot themselves, but the way
his families react to their situations: that's not good writing; that's
knowing people.
Thor
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