Subject: Re: Awfully Quiet in Here
From: Suzanne Morine (suzannem@dimensional.com)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 23:18:14 GMT
At 02:09 PM 2/27/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>--- Paul Kennedy <kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca> wrote:
> > OSR: Is THIS the sound of one hand clapping?
>
>Our dear friend Paul brings up the koan which begins NINE STORIES. The
>supposed answer to the koan is for the student to wave his hand back and
>forth. Someone, and I can't remember where I read this,
This was the Esquire article from a few years back. When he saw the angry
car leave Salinger's estate, he waved his hand, like Muriel drying her nails.
>once suggested
>that an astute observer will find that answer in "A Perfect Day for
>Bananafish", when Muriel waves her hand back and forth to dry her nail
>lacquer.
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