Re: Teddy
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Sat, 08 May 1999 08:19:38 -0400 (EDT)
Your last line gets the JR Laugh Out Loud prize for the day :)
I didn't feel that way, but I sure understand someone else doing so :)
Jim
"fag-ends" refers to cigarette butts, I'm pretty sure.
On Fri, 07 May 1999 13:15:07 -0700 "Sean Draine (Exchange)"
<seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com> writes:
>
>I recently reread Teddy - apparently I hadn't been paying attention
>the
>first time - and finished the story feeling somewhat disappointed in
>ol' JD.
>In contrast to the Glass stories, which I love, Teddy has an almost
>preachy
>tone. For the Glass family, Buddhism seems like one of many
>intellectual
>playthings that Salinger pulls out of the toy trunk as an antedote to
>his
>characters' boredom or malaise. In Teddy, Salinger seems to be taking
>his
>ideas about Buddhism much more seriously, a little too seriously for
>my
>taste. Are we really supposed to believe the little squirt when he
>suggests
>that Buddhist enlightment has given him the ability to perceive
>material
>objects outside the confines of their spatial dimensions?
>
>Are there any others out there who felt a slight sense of satisfaction
>when
>the little stinker cracks his head open in the bottom of the swimming
>pool?
>
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