missing in action

[calimac]

At the time of J.D. Salinger's death, I remarked that I'd never read any of his work. I have occasionally wondered, though, over the years, what it would be like to be a Salinger fan: to admire great work that came out a long time ago, and the author is still around and in good health, but he hasn't published anything in ages and is just ... hiding out somewhere, in cryptic silence, and nobody ever comes out, and nobody ever goes in.

Well, as I realized when Mark Evanier alluded to Salinger in linking to this little article, I am the fan of such an author.

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[19-crows.livejournal.com]

The "impatient for what happens next" thing was something someone suggested to me for why people write fan fiction, an activity that is otherwise incomprehensible to me for various reasons. It wasn't familiar but sort of made sense.