Tag Archives: seymour krim

“we don’t talk we hold forth”

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Dave

They evoke a memory here, a recognition there, of the kind of overarticulate, overemotional young people who excitedly theorize about the universe and themselves, who forever question what they are saying and then question the question itself, who sound as … Continue reading →

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small shares of nobility

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Dave

The refusal to accept the status quo in the universe marks not only adolescents; it also marks the saints and, at times, the mad. The connection is not accidental but necessary and functional. The young have the clarity and newness … Continue reading →

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the Fat lady

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

Finding behind the laughter all kinds of hate, cruelty and perverted fantasies. In a way, the Glasses are an intimate club, as David Leitch once said, a peculiarly intimate club in which Salinger’s readers were overtly invited to associate themselves … Continue reading →

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J.D : the winsome as unfair advantage

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

A part of the charge of immaturity often brought against J.D. Salinger is the fact that he did not deal with mature love. The implication is that he “escapes” from sex. It is an open question whether this escape is … Continue reading →

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view from the cliff

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

So long and thanks for all the fish.Even if it is hard to catch the imagery of fish frozen in ice as anything positive and constructive, a kind of purgatory state that is not fully human, but potentially on the … Continue reading →

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echoes of the beat

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design): TALKIN’ ‘BOUT THE BEAT G-G-G-G-GENERATION: Here’s a small sampling of how Jack Kerouac and the Beat writers were presented in their time, and from the relatively recent past. Dig it man. More … Continue reading →