[Bananafish] RE: The Inverted Forest

[Michael J ANELLO]

i think the odds are way better that he uses copies of the inverted
forest for toilet tissue.
 
-mike

>>> info at applicationarch.com 3/22/2006 10:18 AM >>>

I wonder there is a more proper ending in the old fella's file
cabinets,
labeled and ready for republication....?

Sincerely,

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> From: "kenny2 at verizon.net" <kenny2 at verizon.net>
> Reply-To: <kenny2 at verizon.net>, bananafish list
<bananafish at lists.bway.net>
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:15:59 -0500
> To: <bananafish at lists.bway.net>
> Subject: [Bananafish] RE: The Inverted Forest
> 
> 
> Poor Mike. Saying that The Inverted Forest is better than Hapworth
is
> pretty severe.
> Okay, let me paint my jaded scenerio on the "abrupt" ending of The
Inverted
> Forest. It's November 1946. Salinger has been working on The
Inverted
> Forest since August, struggling with its length and extended
time-frame.
> He's almost finished the novella. There's only a few pages to go
until the
> end. Suddenly, the phone rings. It's Gus Lobrano at The New Yorker.
After
> five years of keeping "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" hostage, the
magazine
> has decided to publish it in the December issue - just a few weeks
away.
> This is the big break that Salinger has waited for. But there's a
caveat.
> The New Yorker needs the story revised before publication.(That's
> "compressed" in New Yorkerese.) That doesn't leave Salinger much
time. He
> dashes off a quick ending on The Inverted Forest and sets to work on
Slight
> Rebellion. When The Inverted Forest is published in December 1947 (a
month
> before Bananafish - which is far too close for comfort), Salinger's
haste
> to put away the novella comes back to bite him in the ass.
> 
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