Re: paedophilia?
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:05:30 -0500 (EST)
Yeah, that's a good direction to take it, Camille. Remember what Teddy
said about his sister...that she had a "young soul," that hadn't been
through many reincarnations?
I think an "older soul" in a child's body is the basis of the child
prodigys in Salinger's lit.
Jim
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:56:05 +1000 Camille Scaysbrook
<verona_beach@geocities.com> writes:
>Jim wrote:
>> The thing about them surpassing their biological age in wisdom was a
>> complaint I read about Hapwroth. The supposedly seven year old
>Seymour
>> presented there wasn't terribly believable to the reviewer...
>
>I guess one explaination could be Salinger's belief in reincarnation -
>perhaps his genius children are, in an extension of Wordsworth's
>famous
>`geniuses are those who can rediscover childhood at will', people who
>have
>been reincarnated as children but remain essentially adult. Teddy
>would
>certainly fall into this category - and, seeing Teddy was `based on'
>Seymour (as Buddy Glass claims in S:AI), he must therefore have some
>similar characteristics (I find seeing `Teddy' as a metatext in
>relation to
>S:AI a very productive viewpoint).
>
>P.S. I tried to respond to the similar sentiments in Dennis Jonnes'
>email
>but my answer came out in Greek writing. Yeah, I dunno why either (:
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
>
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