Salinger run over by a car....

[Mark Kohut]

A...and Pynchon has kept publishing within his privacy position
and JD did not. JD wrote for the safe--his agent's.



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 10:11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Salinger run over by a car....

> *the refuse of being part of the Spectacle

this is probably wherein the humor lay;
reminds me of a reference to a time when there were only
two automobiles in the US state of Ohio
- and they had a collision!
(something I think many of us heard in primary or remedial
driving classes, and / or automobile insurance commercials...)

the irony of seeking to be far from the madding crowd,
only to literally "run into" another pursuing same solace in solitude...

however, the premise is amusing but I think the abiding
tradition, from at least Cincinnatus, of an orderly retreat
from publicity and public battles, is a good one and I can't
entertain the notion of Mr Pynchon's choice harming Mr Salinger -
if anything, his following the example and refusing lionization was probably
a sustaining factor and bolstered Mr Salinger's confidence in his choice...


maded wrote:
> As Against the Day went out, an Italian comedian (Daniele Luttazzi) wrote
> this news-joke:
>
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> November 2006, Literature
> J.D. Salinger run over by a car driven by Thomas Pynchon.
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> I though this mailing list was a perfect place to ask people who could fully
> get it. From my limited knowledge so far (I've refused the reading of
> Cathcer in the Rye when a Stalinist cunt tried to enforce it), the only
> parallels I'm aware of between the two writers are:

> *Salinger got banned because of a single mention of 'fuck', which Holden
> himself doesn't even endorse, and despite being overall very moderate if not
> prudish; Pynchon doesn't make concessions to moral hipocrisy.
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