Subject: Re: "Teddy" and Salinger's short fiction cred
From: Josh Feldmeth (sportcarrier@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Feb 10 1997 - 20:19:30 GMT
Jon, good to hear from you.
At leaast being Luthern you were alittle closer to pure ecumenicalism. I
was raised brimstone Baptist where religious plurality is not an option.
In any event, I read Teddy after church yesterday (yes I still attend,
actually I am the choir director/pianist for a local black holiness
congregation, but with the caveate that I don't get much out of a
service sans a Eucharist) and its "intro to Easthen thought" prompted me
to pick up (and finish) Hesse's Sidhartha.
What I found startled me. I expected the common Eastern themes of
inter-relatedness, pantheism and the personal emptiness of Nirvana and
was not dissapointed. What supprised me was their similarity to the
Christian "death-to-self" model of salvation and Eccliasties "Eternity
in their hearts." Ultimately, we are all very close.
By the way, IF grad. student, THEN where? why? Let us know.
All good things
Josh Feldmeth
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