Re: a poem - lovely as a tree

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In a message dated 9/19/99 1:19:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rbowman@indigo.ie writes:

<< But, as I said before, Salinger is never
     satisfied with one perfect word where twenty contrived ones
     can be dragged in.
 
     Now, if it had been Petrified Forests....
 
     Scottie B. >>

Yeah, you have a point there :)  I'd have to look into the story to see, 
first, if Saligner did seem to be presenting some ideas similar to the 
Inverted Tree (beyond just the close verbal parallel), and then I'd have to 
ask what the meaning of the change is.  Why he went from tree to forest.  But 
I'm not taking for granted that this was the origin of Salinger's reference, 
it just seemed like a possibility.

Jim

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