Re: Salinger and the Beats
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Wed, 13 May 1998 10:15:28 -0600 (MDT)
I don't think the relationship is coincidental but maybe cultural--for one
thing, beats and salinger both helped to bring more respect/interest in
america for zen and buddhism...for another, both salinger and beats became
part of a sixties sensibility that made questioning authority and seeing
adult phoniness a way of life...we can argue chicken and egg-wise about
whether writers reflected or helped cause this cultural movement, but
rather than coincidence, I see god-seeking and doubting adult/previous
authority in beats and salinger as real links beyond a simple shoulder
shrugging of coincidence...will
On Wed, 13 May 1998, D. wrote:
> Thanks, Sundeep. I have read <italic>Satori in Paris</italic>, too
> and I do recall, now that you've posted it, this passage. I still the
> relationship between Salinger and the Beats is coincidental at most.
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> At 12:03 AM 5/13/98 +0500, you wrote:
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> >I enclose a quote from an old post on the list by Lagusta Pauline,
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> >Regards,
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