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[Kenneth]

Aw, Dan Moore, "Go See Eddie" isn't bad for a second publication. I kind of 
like it.
There's an edginess to it typical of Salinger's earliest writings. As a kid, 
Salinger was both repelled and enormously attracted to women like Helen. (In 
fact, I think he married one.) He wrote a (very bad) poem about such women 
in which his sexual fascination with them leaps off the page.
On the other hand, could you explain to me your attraction to "A Young Girl 
in !941"?
I admit this was the last Salinger story that I read. Just beforehand, I had 
suffered through "The Children's Echelon," a terrible piece. When I realized 
that "A Young Girl" was basically a re-write of that story, I groaned.
Let's make a deal, though. I'll give "A Young Girl" a fresh chance if you do 
the same for "Go See Eddie."

Kenneth

P.S. Good call on Nine Stories, IMHO.


>Hide the children, etc. My name is Dan Moore, and it made me very happy to
> remember that this list existed, today, while I was making my weekly check
> of the mostly-dormant JD Salinger livejournal community.
>
> I'm a would-be writer and happens-to-be Journalism student at the 
> University
> of Missouri who spends an inordinate amount of time printing out old short
> stories from Saturday Evening Post microfilm and attempting to create a
> lookalike cover for my very own bootleg copy of the uncollected Salinger
> stories I can't live without (i.e. most of them except Go See Eddie.) I've
> read a few months of archives and I'm excited to join in the 
> bananafishery.
> In the interest of full disclosure, my favorite Nine Stories are Down at 
> the
> Dinghy and Esme, and my least favorites are Pretty Mouth and Teddy. And 
> I'm
> a big fan of "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All", although I'm not
> sure why. That about covers it.
>
> Regards,
> Dan