Seymour An Introduction by J. D. Salinger

Author:J. D. Salinger [Salinger, J. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Memo now. As presented with pride and resignation. Pride because - Well, I'll pass that. Resignation because some of my faculty comrades may be listening - veteran interoffice cutups, all - and I have a notion that this particular enclosure is sooner or later bound to be entitled 'A Nineteen-Year-Old Prescription for Writers and Brothers and Hepatitis Convalescents Who Have Lost Their Way and Can't Go On'. (Ah, well. It takes a cutup to know one. Besides, I feel that my loins are oddly girded for this occasion.)

I think, first, that this was the lengthiest critical comment I ever had from Seymour about any Literary Effort of mine - and, for that matter, probably the longest non-oral communiqué I ever got from him during his life. (We very rarely wrote personal letters to each other, even during the war.) It was written in pencil, on several sheets of notepaper that our mother had relieved the Bismarck Hotel, in Chicago, of, some years earlier. He was responding to what was surely the most ambitious bloc of writing I had done tip to that time. The year was 1940, and we were both still living in our parents' rather thickly populated apartment in the East Seventies. I was twenty-one, as unattached as, shall I say, only a young, unpublished, green-complexioned writer can be. Seymour himself was twenty-three and had just begun his fifth year of teaching English at a university in New York. Herewith, then, in full. (I can foresee a few embarrassments for the discriminating reader, but the Worst, I think, will be over with the salutation. I figure that if the salutation doesn't embarrass me particularly, I don't see why it should embarrass any other living soul.

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