http://tectonic-uplift.com/deepthiw/2008/08/28/is-catcher-in-the-rye-past-its-date/ A Little Media, A Little Mayhem, A Little Madness Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:15:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://tectonic-uplift.com/deepthiw/2008/08/28/is-catcher-in-the-rye-past-its-date/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Jim Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:45:02 +0000 http://tectonic-uplift.com/deepthiw/?p=59#comment-130 One wonders if the great classics, even those of Shakespeare and Shelley, in all media for that matter, suffer irretreviably from the process of aging. Should we not read the Greeks? Of course, Salinger should not be considered in the pantheon, but still CITR is a valuable read even beyond a historian trying to understand the post-WWII world and angst. I read it as an adult (as I did Kerouac), and I don't think either hit me as they would have had I read them as a youth. With the accelerated technological and social advances, one wonders if material becomes too dated so quickly that as a culture we are losing some of our moorings. Then again, look at the whole generation for whom HARRY POTTER is the common denominator. One wonders if the great classics, even those of Shakespeare and Shelley, in all media for that matter, suffer irretreviably from the process of aging. Should we not read the Greeks? Of course, Salinger should not be considered in the pantheon, but still CITR is a valuable read even beyond a historian trying to understand the post-WWII world and angst. I read it as an adult (as I did Kerouac), and I don’t think either hit me as they would have had I read them as a youth. With the accelerated technological and social advances, one wonders if material becomes too dated so quickly that as a culture we are losing some of our moorings. Then again, look at the whole generation for whom HARRY POTTER is the common denominator.

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