Re: second opinion
Tiril Broch Aakre (Tiril.Aakre@student.uib.no)
Fri, 01 May 1998 12:28:38 +0200 (MET DST)
I did not mean to say that TCIR is a positive book about how we should
hold on to things...if that was what came out of my comment, I must have
made myself pretty unclear. But I wanted to question the former opinion
that the novel is negative and destructive. I don't regard TCIR only as
a
tragedy of unconsoleable ambiguities.I thought there were some positive
drives in the novel as well, for instance the end and the narrating of the
story itself. And in this connection, i hope there are more
aspects to the notion of 'Catching', than "holding on to things" in a
buddhistic perspective.
Tiril
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, TheSecretGoldfish wrote:
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> ---ThiNK655 <ThiNK655@aol.com> wrote:
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> > in regards to what was said about catcher in the
> rye being positive, and
> > saying that catching things and holding on to them
> is positive i'm going to
> > have disagree... you might personally believe that
> but if you look at jds'
> > stories particularly the ones about the glass
> family there are so many
> > instances in which buddhism is looked upon with
> reverence... and one of the
> > primary teachings of the buddha is to let go of
> things... i doubt jds would
> > write a novel on how we should hold onto things and
> then write stories that
> > hold buddhist teachings about letting go...
> > joey
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> my toes tingle.
> well, that seems to about cover it.
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> paul.
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