Many Small Things.
Jake McHenry (seymour@supermanytime.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:34:51 -0600
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Hello all! Have been listening in on you for a few weeks and decided to =
join in. I suppose that I am jumping in to territory already =
sufficiently covered by many but still I trudge on. I have just =
finished Hapworth for the first real time and am going crazy on this end =
to find out what people think. I am supposing that Salinger is =
publishing it (re-publishing) to fill many of us in on little clues we =
may not have gathered from his more accessible works. There are some =
perfect references by Seymour about Buddy. Seymour has these fantastic =
images of an older Buddy just off in the damned woods by himself =
contently typing up manuscript after manuscript. And I cannot help for =
the life of me to feel giddy as anything over the way a seven year old =
Seymour talks about Buddy and uses some real grandiloquent tones. (This =
makes me think of when I was a small child and just repeated the hell =
out of any new word I thought to be "big" just for the sake of =
exercising my vocabulary. Manufacturing context just to slip it in is so =
nice.) Also, is it against the rules to offer to photocopy the story?=20
More soon.
-Jake McHenry.
seymour@supermanytime.com
(supermanytime.) High Culture for Low Brows.
www.supermanytime.com
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Hello all! =
Have been=20
listening in on you for a few weeks and decided to join in. I =
suppose that=20
I am jumping in to territory already sufficiently covered by many but =
still I=20
trudge on. I have just finished Hapworth for the first real time =
and am=20
going crazy on this end to find out what people think. I am supposing =
that=20
Salinger is publishing it (re-publishing) to fill many of us in on =
little clues=20
we may not have gathered from his more accessible works. There are some =
perfect=20
references by Seymour about Buddy. Seymour has these fantastic images of =
an=20
older Buddy just off in the damned woods by himself contently typing up=20
manuscript after manuscript. And I cannot help for the life of me =
to feel=20
giddy as anything over the way a seven year old Seymour talks about =
Buddy and=20
uses some real grandiloquent tones. (This makes me think of when I was a =
small=20
child and just repeated the hell out of any new word I thought to be=20
"big" just for the sake of exercising my vocabulary. =
Manufacturing=20
context just to slip it in is so nice.) Also, is it against the rules to =
offer=20
to photocopy the story?
More soon.
-Jake McHenry.