Subject: Re: Jesus/fat lady and dying
From: Will Hochman (Hochman@scsu.ctstateu.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 22:11:16 GMT
Suzanne, your reply to Scottie's rhetoric shows your own care with
words and deserves the respect you ask for...Scottie is someone I
have learned to listen to despite his crusty phrasing. Don't worry
about his attitude--he's always been that way and sometimes it's not
brilliant and sometimes it is...but in any case, your ideas were
illuminating my screen. Some might say Salinger "flirted" with other
religions, but some (Eberhard Alsen and Elizabeth Kurian come quickly
and wonderfully to mind) have studied the ways Salinger calls ideas
from Christianity, Judiasm, Buddhism, and Hinduism into play in his
fiction and I for one, have learned that beyond the wisdom of
organized religion is the wisdom of learning and believing what you
can from all religions that speak to you...Salinger's Fat Lady makes
me cry every time I come to the end of the "Zooey." Seymour's and
Teddy's wisdom about reincarnation makes me sense my own journey in
similar ways. The Glass family makes my own Jewish family richer in
hopes for the brilliance and respect for intelligence I seek, and the
way service and love are braided into a hindu strand in Salinger's
fiction also deepens my own sense of love and marriage. Stay strong
Suzanne and know that Scottie gives this list an edge I love, though
sometimes get cut up on too, will
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