Subject: Re: Literary Faith
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 19:05:53 EST
In a message dated 1/23/00 6:58:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, wh14@is9.nyu.edu
writes:
> Sorry Jim but I don't agree that Salinger is simply distilling the
> essense of Bible, Upanishads etc.. I might even guess that his spirtual
> ability to sense such essnces is fictive. I'm guessing that there's more
> rhetoric to the storytelling and sprituality in Salinger's stories. The
> religious stories about Seymour and Teddy sketch only the briefest
> seeking and state some of the principle concepts of some of the world's
> religions, and yet they trigger deep confidence in Salinger's and stories'
> religious insights. I tend to agree that Salinger's insights are worthy,
> but I'd like to better understand how he does it.
>
> will
How is "stating some of the principle concepts of the some of the world's
religions" different from "distilling the essence"? Principle concepts are
an integral part of the essence (but not to be identified with it). I don't
see anything terribly unique in Salinger's religious insights, perhaps that
is the difference between us? He's also not terribly dogmatic, except in
Teddy, and that tends to ring more true with modern American readers than
dogmatism...
Jim
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