Paranoiac in Reverse

citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:15:04 -0700

No, no, no guys.  Not *Buddy*.

"A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her.  I still
have a lemon-yellow mark on  the palm of my right hand.  Oh, God, if I'm
anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse.  I suspect
people of plotting to make me happy."

How could it be anyone but Seymour.  (From his diary as quoted in RHTRBC.)

--Bruce
PS: will, thanks for the Stevens link.  I need to read that guy!  What think
ye of the Joan Richardson [believe that's her name] bio?

-----Original Message-----
From: William Hochman <wh14@is9.nyu.edu>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: how to get published and the movies


>Yes, you are right--somehow Buddy saying it makes sense--but imagining
>Salinger saying something so revealing...well, thanks, will
>
>On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Sundeep Dougal wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > Mr. Woo, I'm wondering if you could tell us where the quote from
>> Salinger
>> > came from...I've heard it before but doubted he actually said
>> that...will
>>
>> That paranoic in reverse, one? I think S:AI.
>> Buddy, I think.
>>
>
>