Salinger and Pynchon (was: GR in SF Chronicle today)

[Ray Sorenson MEL.251]

MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> 
> <<I guess they are relatively unknown over here. Is "precious and mannered"
> 
> negatively meant?>>
> 
> Yes.


"
if Lane new what this bastard Rilke was all about."

A wonderful work, just read it, bought it for a buck on the
street. 
Rilke? No, he doesn't figure in this GRGR


Somewhere in "The Crying of Lot 49" (which was my "The Great
Gatsby" when I was twelve), the youthful narrator, who seems
at times to be showing us home movies, starts talking like a
goddam (sorry, for that worst kind of name dropping) section
man: tearing out the insides, down the outsides of the act
of metaphor as if he's clearing up, once and for all, some
highly controversial issue with conceited conceits. It's an
incredible farce! Oh is that the right spelling conceit?
(sp.?)? It's so crowded in this coffin they call a library.
Oh I miss you so. I miss your kissing my raccoon's lapel, as
if it were an organic extension of my person. 

No 

 ---Camus


You must imagine that I ate it at the bus stop
				---"The Signs Of Man's Inspiration

"But Lane couldn't let a controversy drop until it had been
resolved in his favor."
				---Franny's Somewhere


"Naturalistic what? Oh no, that's too much for me, I don't
even know what that word means and if some smart college guy
starts quoting Barf or some other vraisemblablisationist on
novelistic conventions and the law of contradiction I'll,
well I think I'll drop English. I'm just so sick of pedants
and conceited little tearer-downers I could scream."  

				---Franny