Subject: Re: 2 Q's
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 19:40:39 EST
I love your `Zen Thwack' - it's a very tangible way of describing the phenomena of satori. I think one of the main aims of Salinger' fiction is to bring on a state approaching that sort of awareness, but without really knowing why. Overanalysis can by its very nature never lead to satori, which is possibly why Salinger mistrusts it. However, who hasn't come away from some elements of a Salinger story at some point without a big rosy smile on their faces without the slightest clue why?
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy Wonka>I feel that Salinger writes from a perspective where the qestion of this or >that specific theology isn't important. True Spirituality is Uiversal; >Perenial. I agree that one shouldn't go to salinger for spirtual philosophy >or theology. He doesn't explain spirituality but I do think he tries to >deliver a sort of Zen Thwak, a set of symbols and ideas that might cause a >sudden spiritual insight to occur on it's own. To me, maybe because I >uderstand my life through the eyes of a bodhisatva, that is the goal of Art. >I realize Art can be many things to many people, but that is my perspective. > >I feel I enter into sort of tenuous ground when talk turns to spirituality. >It seems the deeper inside our true selves we speak from, the more grand and >intricate our linguistic bridges need to become to hold us together. >Although I'm unsure whether it's really possible to make the cross on such a >linguistic bridge (it's definately easier to make cross out of such >bridges), I enjoy it and the challenges that make it possible. It may even >be Art. > >Love, >Madhava > >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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