tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post1997959815303861427..comments2023-12-15T02:38:55.020+10:30Comments on Still Life With Cat: Shining your shoes for the Fat LadyKerryn Goldsworthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-26147134192889777202010-02-10T19:39:17.518+10:302010-02-10T19:39:17.518+10:30Thanks for this Kerryn. I know how popular Salinge...Thanks for this Kerryn. I know how popular Salinger's works are, and yet I'm surprised at how much they mean to other people... I've always thought they were just mine, somehow. I suppose that's their power... to make everyone feel they were written just for them.Meredith Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977264379899180896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-81920492080103916692010-02-05T19:24:03.220+10:302010-02-05T19:24:03.220+10:30I meant 'Franny and Zoey' obviously. Or i...I meant 'Franny and Zoey' obviously. Or is it 'Zooey'? It seems interchangeable. Woops alround.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-9481538133208934972010-02-05T19:21:00.682+10:302010-02-05T19:21:00.682+10:30Rather embarrassingly I only read The Catcher in t...Rather embarrassingly I only read The Catcher in the Rye very recently. Now it seems I need to invest in Franny and Mae. Though I am neither fat nor a lady - is that a problem, do you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-17621237449029998992010-02-02T16:24:51.432+10:302010-02-02T16:24:51.432+10:30That may well be true. Meanwhile Radicals of early...That may well be true. Meanwhile Radicals of early last century personified 'Fat' as a bloated, prosperous, well-dressed Capitalist man, wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. <br />But he only featured in papers like the Tribune, and the mainstream of course never read them.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-73375213511225623582010-02-02T16:04:41.282+10:302010-02-02T16:04:41.282+10:30Whatever else Seymour's Fat Lady may or may no...Whatever else Seymour's Fat Lady may or may not be, I'm pretty sure she's poor.Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-88600191057540777122010-02-02T16:02:27.416+10:302010-02-02T16:02:27.416+10:30In The Three Stooges comedies fat ladies are alway...In The Three Stooges comedies fat ladies are always rich, and haughty.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-6818333823304552322010-02-02T14:27:51.604+10:302010-02-02T14:27:51.604+10:30History 101 -
in past decades 'fat ladies'...History 101 -<br />in past decades 'fat ladies' might be rich snobby social types, and concurrently 'poor people' were skinny. <b> ref: old movies.</b><br /><br />These days the opposite is the case of course.<br />munchi !Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-82720295660670560812010-02-02T11:44:00.084+10:302010-02-02T11:44:00.084+10:30Frances, I'm sure you're right and it'...Frances, I'm sure you're right and it's unfortunate that when you put it like that it will sound to some contemporary readers like contempt, whereas obviously for Salinger the opposite is true. I'm fairly sure that fat-hate as we now know it in its full toxicity wasn't around back then, so I doubt whether the connotations would have been the same. I've always thought Phillip Adams's Gladdies were invented in much the same benign spirit as Seymour's Fat Lady, and thanks to Salinger it is the Gladdies / Fat Ladies, of all sizes, ages and genders, for whom I do my own best when obliged to put on any kind of public performance.<br /><br />No one will believe this, but the word verification is 'munchi'.Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-36121091533367369572010-02-02T09:53:52.792+10:302010-02-02T09:53:52.792+10:30I am wondering whether this is how JDS saw his rea...I am wondering whether this is how JDS saw his readers: all fat ladies.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588049222095187200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-11467866618899085722010-01-31T08:55:25.304+10:302010-01-31T08:55:25.304+10:30Thank you.
My one big reason for any kind of lon...Thank you. <br /><br />My one big reason for any kind of longevity has long been that I'd still like to be able to read when/if Salinger's last books are published. If he has, as is rumoured, a 50-year embargo upon publishing after his death, I may just scrape in, if I'm lucky.<br /><br />I love Franny & Zoe. I had a very unhappy love affair in the early 90s and the only good thing to come out of it was a complete set of Salinger (including a very early New Yorker short story that introduces Seymour) that the bastard left at my place & I never returned.Ampersand Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245377686193859488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-77364838227402316912010-01-29T21:57:12.957+10:302010-01-29T21:57:12.957+10:30I get my more succinct life lessons from the movie...I get my more succinct life lessons from the movies or the teeve. At least once a day I say to myself either 'Let it go, Indy' or 'Suck it up, Fleischman'. On bad days I say both. Sucking it up and letting it go at the same time requires very steady nerves, I can tell you.Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-56458985190623693792010-01-29T21:44:44.311+10:302010-01-29T21:44:44.311+10:30a gift of Franny & Zooey in 1969 was my discov...a gift of Franny & Zooey in 1969 was my discovery of JDS and I am now worried that HarveyWeinstein will somehow film what he previously could not, and god help us it will be Robert 'The Fang' Pattinson as Holden or I'm Liz Taylor.<br /><a href="http://thebwca.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Bwca, Boggart & Brownie Inc.</a> has always had a link to <a href="http://www.deadcaulfields.com/" rel="nofollow">Dead Caulfields</a> and is too overcome to post sensibly, but <a href="http://thatssopants.blogspot.com/2010/01/catcher-is-keeper.html" rel="nofollow">That's So Pants</a> also has a literate and articulate take on it.<br /><br />As you have, this dear friend has also taken a learning experience from literature and her resultant mantra is, justifiably<br />'No more zombies Joe'.Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-52681520913199939852010-01-29T15:51:16.351+10:302010-01-29T15:51:16.351+10:30Thanks very much for that. I've had Franny and...Thanks very much for that. I've had <em>Franny and Zoey</em> next to my bed for a re-read for about six months now. It just moved to the top of the pile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com