Re: greetings

On Sun, Nov 2, 2003, Kgartnerborders@aol.com said:

>Greetings to all,

Hi, and welcome to the list.

>I am a "English major for life" joining the list. I have taken a nasty turn
>by entering the world of PR and media but, my heart remains in an ivory
tower
>contemplating and loving words, stories and the soul they lend life.

That's OK ... lots of us do what we can to pay the bills and provide for
food! It's one of those things you can't do much about.

>Are there any folks out there who have a huge amount of respect for Franny?
>His observation about ego and folks not using their ego correctly being the
>cause of so chaos in the world, well, frankly, it just put so much in
>perspective.

I know I always had a soft spot for Franny. She is special without being
as unreal as Seymour tends to be. I think Salinger overdoes it just a
bit in being preachy -- I always have the feeling that Franny is a
ventriloquist's doll with Salinger's voice coming out -- but aside from
that I always felt there was some merit in the way Salinger used Franny
to plead for less ego. It's perhaps not very realistic in our world of
strivers and overachievers, but it sounds decent enough.

--tim

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Received on Tue Nov 4 09:46:21 2003