Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010
Wes Anderson on F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. D. Salinger
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I remembered this passage from the F. Scott Fitzgerald story “The Freshest Boy”:
"He had contributed to the events by which another boy was saved from the army of the bitter, the selfish, the neurasthenic and the unhappy. It isn’t given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords."
—and it occurred to me that more than everything else—more than all the things in his stories that I have been inspired by and imitated and stolen to the best of my abilities—THIS describes my experience of the works of J. D. Salinger.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2010/01/wes-anderson-on-j-d-salinger.html#ixzz0eZdHClzA
http://www.newyorker.com/
"He had contributed to the events by which another boy was saved from the army of the bitter, the selfish, the neurasthenic and the unhappy. It isn’t given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords."
—and it occurred to me that more than everything else—more than all the things in his stories that I have been inspired by and imitated and stolen to the best of my abilities—THIS describes my experience of the works of J. D. Salinger.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2010/01/wes-anderson-on-j-d-salinger.html#ixzz0eZdHClzA
http://www.newyorker.com/
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