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Amber Raley
Mar 22, 2020, 11:56:20 AM3/22/20
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Dear fellow Bananafish,
Just a friendly check-in to ask how each of you are doing. Although we've not been in touch for some time I think fondly of the support that this group provided me 20+ years ago as I was a first-generation college student. Tim was the one who helped me with my application and soothed my imposter syndrome once I was accepted (they did in fact not make a mistake or error in admitting me). I wanted to extend a little love to Cecilia, Jim, and others still swimming in these troubled waters.
Swimmingly,
Amber
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Amber Raley
Mar 22, 2020, 12:00:38 PM3/22/20
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Dear Bananafish,
In my haste in sending the last message I neglected Chris and Sundeep and likely many others. Forgive my forgetful and anxious brain these days!
Mixing memory and desire...
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Chris Kubica
Mar 22, 2020, 12:57:55 PM3/22/20
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Hey, Amber (and everyone),
Sheesh, I’m trying to remember when I initially got on the *first* Salinger listserv. Is it possible I first posted on there 23 years ago? I found this old post about my dumb book:
Remember Scottie??
I’m well; still a self-employed software developer in Carrboro, NC (Amber and I met for coffee there once ages ago…I remember your all-neon-orange outfit LOL).
Currently stuck in Malmö, Sweden due to Coronavirus closings/cancelations/etc.
What great books are y’all reading?
Stay safe!
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Chris Kubica
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Sundeep Dougal
Mar 23, 2020, 6:34:45 AM3/23/20
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Dear Amber and all the Bananafish,
It's like a blast from the past to suddenly hear from you with such warmth and affection. I think Stephen (Foskett) and Tim performed such a stellar service by getting us all in touch with each other, even though we may not be communicating regularly anymore.
I see Cecilia on Facebook sometimes, when she posts about her lovely son and am always reminded of Matt Kozusko, Scottie, Will, Chris, Jim and so many others whose names I will (like you, Amber) most certainly remember soon as I have posted this.
I was reminded of the group when I heard about the Berlinale 2020 opening with My Salinger Year, based on Joanna Rakoff’s memoirs, but somehow have been caught up with the day to day, and now the lockdown in New Delhi, India.
So much to re-read, but so much to read yet! Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind is what I wanted to read, but Camus's The Plague calls out for a re-read. So I think I will just end for now with a lovely Czeslaw Milosz poem:
Czesław Miłosz | The World
It appears that it was all a misunderstanding.
What was only a trial run was taken seriously.
The rivers will return to their beginnings.
The wind will cease in its turning about.
Trees instead of budding will tend to their roots.
Old men will chase a ball, a glance in the mirror–
They are children again.
The dead will wake up, not comprehending.
Till everything that happened has unhappened.
What a relief! Breathe freely, you who have suffered much.
(Translated by Czesław Miłosz and Robert Haas)
OK, let me add another by him, by way of a postscript, wishing for days like this again, soon, for all of us:
Gift
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.
Sonny
It's like a blast from the past to suddenly hear from you with such warmth and affection. I think Stephen (Foskett) and Tim performed such a stellar service by getting us all in touch with each other, even though we may not be communicating regularly anymore.
I see Cecilia on Facebook sometimes, when she posts about her lovely son and am always reminded of Matt Kozusko, Scottie, Will, Chris, Jim and so many others whose names I will (like you, Amber) most certainly remember soon as I have posted this.
I was reminded of the group when I heard about the Berlinale 2020 opening with My Salinger Year, based on Joanna Rakoff’s memoirs, but somehow have been caught up with the day to day, and now the lockdown in New Delhi, India.
So much to re-read, but so much to read yet! Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind is what I wanted to read, but Camus's The Plague calls out for a re-read. So I think I will just end for now with a lovely Czeslaw Milosz poem:
Czesław Miłosz | The World
It appears that it was all a misunderstanding.
What was only a trial run was taken seriously.
The rivers will return to their beginnings.
The wind will cease in its turning about.
Trees instead of budding will tend to their roots.
Old men will chase a ball, a glance in the mirror–
They are children again.
The dead will wake up, not comprehending.
Till everything that happened has unhappened.
What a relief! Breathe freely, you who have suffered much.
(Translated by Czesław Miłosz and Robert Haas)
OK, let me add another by him, by way of a postscript, wishing for days like this again, soon, for all of us:
Gift
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.
Sonny
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James Rovira
Mar 23, 2020, 4:46:09 PM3/23/20
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Fabulous to hear from Amber, Chris, and Sundeep. We are all fine over here for now. Would love to hear from more of you.
Jim
- Writing for College and Beyond (Lulu Press, May 2019, a first year writing textbook)
- Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (Lexington Books, April 2019)
- Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2018)
- Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (Lexington Books, February 2018)
- Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural, and Geopolitical Domains, Chapter 8 (McFarland Books, 2018)
- Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts, Chapter 12 (Northwestern UP, 2018)
- Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (Continuum, 2010)
In development
- Women in Rock/ Women in Literature: The Emancipation of Female Will, edited anthology
- David Bowie and Literature: The Chameleon Poet and the Changeling Self, edited anthology
Sundeep Dougal
Mar 26, 2020, 1:54:34 AM3/26/20
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Hey Jim, Chris.
Who can add members to this group please? I suddenly heard from Cecilia and she did not know that the group still exists and would like to be added. If there's a way she can add herself, please let me know. Or I could pass on her email id to someone who could add her, please.
Who can add members to this group please? I suddenly heard from Cecilia and she did not know that the group still exists and would like to be added. If there's a way she can add herself, please let me know. Or I could pass on her email id to someone who could add her, please.
Gracias.
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Chris Kubica
Mar 26, 2020, 6:14:50 AM3/26/20
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I think you can join here:
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Sundeep Dougal
Mar 26, 2020, 7:15:07 AM3/26/20
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AH, ok, thanks, will let her know.
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Chris Kubica
Mar 27, 2020, 5:18:49 AM3/27/20
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Cecilia is on the list again. Hi, Cecilia!
So when and where should our worldwide bananafish reunion be? Paris, summer of 2021? :-)
Chris
On Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 6:54:34 AM UTC+1, Sonny wrote:
Hey Jim, Chris.
Who can add members to this group please? I suddenly heard from Cecilia and she did not know that the group still exists and would like to be added. If there's a way she can add herself, please let me know. Or I could pass on her email id to someone who could add her, please.Gracias.
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 02:16, James Rovira <james...@gmail.com> wrote:
--Fabulous to hear from Amber, Chris, and Sundeep. We are all fine over here for now. Would love to hear from more of you.Jim--
- Writing for College and Beyond (Lulu Press, May 2019, a first year writing textbook)
- Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (Lexington Books, April 2019)
- Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2018)
- Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (Lexington Books, February 2018)
- Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural, and Geopolitical Domains, Chapter 8 (McFarland Books, 2018)
- Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts, Chapter 12 (Northwestern UP, 2018)
- Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (Continuum, 2010)
In development
- Women in Rock/ Women in Literature: The Emancipation of Female Will, edited anthology
- David Bowie and Literature: The Chameleon Poet and the Changeling Self, edited anthology
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James Rovira
Mar 27, 2020, 11:29:31 AM3/27/20
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Ha that'd be great :). Good to see you here, Cecilia.
Jim
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