oh the juxtaposition!
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 07 May 1998 22:07:09 +1000
I had the great excitement today of happening upon the `Hapworth 16' copy
of The New Yorker in my university library (though they only began
archiving them in 1950, all the other editions containing Salinger have
mysteriously disappeared. I hear that's a common phenomena)
I haven't yet read the `weird and exasperating tour de force' but like
someone else said not long ago, isn't it fascinating reading Salinger in
the context of the `slick' ? It's so weird to see our poet-seer nestled in
between Bambi Kramer type cartoons and advertisements for club soda (I was
almost surprised not to find a reprint of `Sex is Fun - Or Hell!' (: ) A
couple of my favourite ads : what I thought with delight was an
accompanying article about Shakespeare (oh ! The juxtaposition!) turning
out to be an advertisement for Shakespeare brand Cigars, the Japanese hotel
that offers `Convenient Western Style Accomodation'. and the `East Meets
West Texas Hibachi Barbeque' with the little graphic of a shish kebab
spearing a cowboy hat. I bet Salinger had a chuckle about those one.
Unfortunately the one I was especially looking for - `Cosmopolitan' with
`The Inverted Forest' in it, of which I have only read portions - wasn't
there. But now my mind is ripe with a potential thesis on `Reading Salinger
in the Original Context' !
Camille
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