Subject: Re: Alsen's royal pain
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 14:27:57 EST
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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