Subject: Re: Alsen's royal pain
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 16:46:19 EST
Oh, ok Bruce. Actually, I kinda felt that way about Alsen's thesis myself. No, there are no simple keys.
Jim
In a message dated Thu, 3 Feb 2000 2:29:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, "citycabn" <citycabn@gateway.net> writes:
> Jim wrote:
> >
> >Do you not believe that stuff about Vedanta because you've read it and
> don't
> >see a connection, or because you haven't read it?
> >
> >I think there's a connection there, but of course it's possible to make too
> >much of it.
>
> Decades ago, I read a tiny bit of Vedanta (almost want to say "a
> miscellany"). My dull point in the original post, where I wrote I don't
> think either Advaita Vedanta or Homeopathy is the key to the Glass Family,
> was intended to mean that I don't think the meanings and mysteries of the
> Glass Family are waiting there to be unlocked by any key. In this case,
> Alsen seems to feel he has found _the_ key and jams it willy nilly into
> story after story, character after character. I agree that knowing about
> Advaita Vedanta and the Old and New Testaments and Classical Taoism and Zen
> Buddhism and Haiku and That German Poet and Stoop Ball and Homeopathy
> brings a richness to the stories (and may illuminate dark corners), but none
> of them, I think, can turn stories upside down and, for example, prove that
> Buddy wrote Seymour's Hapworth letter. (Well, maybe Homeopathy.)
>
> --Bruce
>
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