Re: new
Jake McHenry (seymour@ktis.net)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:02:31 -0600
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?
More soon.
-Jake McHenry.
seymour@ktis.net