I'm trying to find the statement Seymour makes to Buddy about writing a book.....
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1karenmarie
Help! It's driving me crazy and I was wondering if anybody here could help me figure out where a particular quote is without my having to re-read all the books about the Glass family.
Somewhere is a statement or several sentences, I think from Seymour to Buddy, telling him that if he wants to read a particular type of book, he must write it himself. It's been bugging me for several months now and I finally thought to check on LT to see if there's a Salinger group. Sure enough, here you all are! I hope someone can remember.
I suspect it's in Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction but there's no telling. It might even be in the uncollected short stories.
Anybody have a clue? Or better yet, a title, edition, and page number?
Somewhere is a statement or several sentences, I think from Seymour to Buddy, telling him that if he wants to read a particular type of book, he must write it himself. It's been bugging me for several months now and I finally thought to check on LT to see if there's a Salinger group. Sure enough, here you all are! I hope someone can remember.
I suspect it's in Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction but there's no telling. It might even be in the uncollected short stories.
Anybody have a clue? Or better yet, a title, edition, and page number?
2mountebank
Hi karenmarie, that's one of my favourite passages. Your instinct was right: it's in Seymour, An Introduction. It's in the letter from Seymour that Buddy reproduces in full, the one that starts, "Dear Old Tyger That Sleeps". In my crappy old 1965 Bantam paperback edition, it's on pp. 160-161. In the 1959 Little, Brown & Co. hardcover first edition, it's on pp. 186-187.
ETA: dates, editions.
ETA: dates, editions.
3karenmarie
Wow, mountebank! I have the exact same crappy old edition, mine's the 9th printing, August 1968, and there it is, just where you said it would be.
Faded and cracked spine, a few bends on the covers, my maiden name written inside, the pages yellowing. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Thank you so much. I just re-read the letter and got shivers. I may have to re-read the whole book again for maybe the 5th or 6th time.
I do so love Salinger.
Faded and cracked spine, a few bends on the covers, my maiden name written inside, the pages yellowing. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Thank you so much. I just re-read the letter and got shivers. I may have to re-read the whole book again for maybe the 5th or 6th time.
I do so love Salinger.
