I seem to remember JDS describing himself fairly recently (which in his terms could mean 25 years ago) as a `failed Buddhist'. His spirit is far too polytheistic to stick to one religion for any one time, I'd say. Camille > Today, while working in the New York Fascist library I covertly and illegally > glanced a at a book of Zen stories. Which remind me the other day I had a > dream in which I was reading Catcher... and discovered a secret code that > stated that the whole book and all his literature is a bunch of meaningless > bullshit, and how it was funny how so many people took it seriously. Not very > relevant to: would anyone know if Salinger is a practicing Buddhist? >