Re: Hapworthless
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:09:44 +1000
citycabn wrote:
> I agree re the obnoxious Hapworth voice. But feel it plays a role in
> concretely showing us Seymour's development from irksome precocious
child
> genius to the mature Seymour of the earlier stories (which Buddy says in
SAI
> happened at age 16 or 17, when he came "into his own true, bull's-eye
poet's
> vocabulary").
Ah, good point. But then, what is Salinger illustrating by giving us
10,000-odd words of that `false' voice? BTW my copy of RHTRBC and S:AI are
officially In Transit - and yes, I am rightly mortified for having typo-ed
Marie for Maria! Next thing I'll be pronouncing Rimbaud Rimbaud (:
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com