ferris wheels
ebell@cbsinc.com
Sat, 02 Oct 1999 10:31:14 -0700
I have loved Salingers stuff for years and have a question. In his Nine
Stories is a story about an art teacher in France
called "De Maumier-Smith's Blue Period". It has a passage that I have never
understood and have never known anyone
who might have some thoughts or even really thought about it. Right after our
hero finds out that his prize pupil will not
be his needing tutelage and would like a $14 refund, is the passage " The mouse,
I've been sure for years, limps home from the site of the burning ferris wheel
with a brand-new, airtight plan for killing the cat."
This congers up an image, but nothing relevant to the story. I don't lay
awake at night over this but.....
eric