RE: vitriolic attacks, like a wedge

There's always that interesting comment in Seymour's letter to Buddy in
S:AI that writing wasn't Buddy's profession, it was always his religion.
        Jim

        I should hope so, otherwise it would become rubbish.
        Daniel

 I think the line between religion and art was pretty blurred in
Saligner,
        Jim

        Isn't it always so in the good stuff?
        Daniel

but there's still a dogmatism hovering over some of his works
that smacks more of specific party line religion than touchy feely
"spirituality" that doesn't really assert much of anything.
Jim

Now here is the meat, yes the tip of the iceberg thing goes here but enough
should poke up to cause alarm else who would notice a floating ice cube? The
best art shoves you in a direction you would never have went if at least to
sail around it. If it is anything less than dogmatic then it becomes
academic, how fun. He may have not become unavoidable in his assertion but
it caused the watch to sound the alarm. That is what we are all waiting for
right? The other shoe to drop. He sends us on a trip and abandons us in the
wilderness, Ok, I'll catch up with you guys later. I have always enjoyed a
few select aesthetic aspects of eastern thought and he goes along way to
clarify some of this for me but the 'not much' is like the old matinee
cliff hanger, stay tuned. I guess we are the audience milling about in the
lobby. Like those Star Wars geeks lining up months ahead of time.

Daniel

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