Re: salinger.
Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:04:57 -0800 (PST)
Ha! I too have wondered if I should take that damn
book and light a match to it, but the many ideas and
revelations Mr. Salinger has written about brings me
back again and again. A lot of people(me included)
seem to be obsessed with this stuff. There was a quote
by T.S. Eliot(I think) that says(I'll butcher this
one) our literature is substituted for our religion
and our religion is substitued for our literature.
What I've finally decided is Mr. Salinger has many
great ideas and themes, but he is 1 out of the 6
billion people on Earth. Something to think about;)
--- Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
wrote:
> 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?
> >
>
>
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