Re: holden hour

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:49:12 -0500 (EST) 

Nah, I wouldn't completely identify Saligner with Holden like that.  I
mean, it's not inconceivable that Salinger drew from his own experiences
to write Holden, but I don't think it's nearly so autobiographical as
even Joyce's Portrait.

And even then, it'd be Salinger drawing upon what he was like at Holden's
age, not what he was like at the time he wrote Catcher.

Jim     

"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules.  Or the French."

--F.K.

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:54:03 -0800 (PST) Florie Sommers
<writeflorie@hotmail.com> writes:
>Hi Guys,
>
>Well, I think I'm the new kid on the block because I have no idea 
>where 
>the thread is on this conversation.
>
>Anyway, who's read "At Home in the World?" I never realized that when 
>Salinger wrote Holden he was really writing himself. Salinger is 
>Holden. 
>Sadly, I'm finding I love Holden a great deal more than Salinger. It 
>seems like great self exploration when your 16, but at 53 its just 
>world 
>hating. Please tell me what do you all think?
>
>Florie
>
>PS- I've never seen the movie but I'll put it on my list of must sees.
>
>>From: WILL HOCHMAN <hochman@uscolo.edu>
>>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>Subject: Re: holden hour
>>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:48:12 -0700 (MST)
>>
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Paul Kennedy wrote:
>>
>>> Will, you're gonna make me *BLUSH*....
>>> 
>>> I'm having SO MUCH fun chewing the Caulfield cud that it's udderly
>>> impossible for me to imagine greener pastures....  (In fact, I 
>don't 
>expect
>>> to experience anything like this kind of gratification until the 
>Jays 
>clinch
>>> the AL East--sometime shortly after the All Star break....)
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>
>>Well, if there's gonna be a "Holden Hour" it seems like there shold 
>be 
>a
>>"Glass Family Show"--we could all behave as glass children on "It's a
>>Wise Child"!  I will sell shoe shine wax of course.
>>
>>> 
>>> OSO--I rented SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION over the weekend, to check 
>out once
>>> again the soliloquy about Salinger embedded therein....  It's 
>probably been
>>> a major thread here at least six (or more likely sixty!) times--so 
>I'm
>>> reticent to re-open an angry argument....  But WHAT A PIECE OF 
>SHIT!!!!
>>> Brilliant script..... Stunning performances (especially, ahem, 
>Canadian
>>> actor Donald Sutherland....)  And then what seems like an hour-long
>>> monologue of idiotic drivel delivered--unconvincingly--by Will 
>Smith 
>in the
>>> very middle....  Then again, what should we expect from a character 
>
>who is
>>> BY DEFINITION phoney?
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>>Didn't see the film but when I saw the play in NY shortly after it 
>opened,
>>the monologue on catcher worked brilliantly...I wish I could remember 
>
>who
>>the actor was, but it wasn't will smith...but I do remember loving it 
>
>and
>>generally it's all I can do to stay in my seat when I go to see 
>plays...
>>
>>will
>>
>>
>
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