Re: the horror, the horror
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:55:30 -0500 (EST)
Scottie wrote:
>
> As a matter of interest, did any other Bananafish manage
> to sit through the entirety of that unending, arse-achingly
> pretentious desert of fatuity? Despite a rigorous search through
> friends, family, acquaintances & patients I've been unable to find
> anyone who did not slink, stalk or stride out of the cinema after
> the thirtieth or so minute. I myself left considerably earlier.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
>.......and (although it may mean that I must have the tatoo of the red
maple leaf removed from my right pec....) I'm afraid I must agree. It was
almost as bad as a similarly over-praised under-imagined epic film from
something like ten years ago--Out of Africa....
But the book (in BOTH instances, actually) was something else again. (And
if you can get anything else by Ondaatje over there Scottie--I recommmend IN
THE SKIN OF A LION--run, don't walk to your local library!)
(Oh, and by the way, have you reconsidered your future in radio?)
Cheers,
Paul
OSO--...further to my earlier post about the premature demise of one H.
Caulfield: This has been driving me crazy since my very recent re-reading
of "This Sandwich has no Mayonnaise"..... D. B. (who was presumably the
narrator) tells us only that Holden was "missing in action"..... Perhaps
I've pre-maturely presumed him to be dead. Maybe JDS has been slaving away
all these years on a magnum opus in which Holden adopts a new name and an
alternate personality, and lives happily ever after in the south of France.....