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“we don’t talk we hold forth”
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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Tagged Alfred Kazin, David Leitch, Don Quixote, Harold Bloom, Henry Grunwald, J.D. Salinger, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismer, Oswald Achenbach, seymour krim, Warren French, William Weigand
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view from the cliff
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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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Carl Strauch, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, James Bryan, Josephine Jacobsen, Kenneth Slawenski, Paul Levine, Peter Martin, Peter Martin The Landsmen, seymour krim, Slawenski, Warren French, William Weigand
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the ordeal
from The Catcher in The Rye: …In the first place, I’m sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don’t care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. … Continue reading
the huck of it: the enviable goddam silences
Like Huck Finn, to whom Holden Caulfield is constantly compared, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye is usually described as a rebel, either against the materialism and ugliness of “our society” or against the realities of the adult … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Anatole Grunwald, Carl Strauch, Claire Douglas, Eloise Perry hazard, Ernest Heingway, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Huckleberry Finn, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Jack Skow, James Bryan, John Aldridge, Mark Twain, Maxwell Geismer, Peter Martin The Landsmen, Sumitra Panikar, Warren French
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