Re: Pilgrim Books

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> > > One of the main points of all the Glass
> > > stories, for me, is that Salinger presents the sacred as right here
in
> > > front of us rather than putting it off in some netherworld. 
> > 
> > But exactly! Is this not the very antithesis of mysticism?
> 
>    No, I don't think it is. Most of the mystics I have read talk about
this
> world. 

Absolutely! And the main point of much modernist and postmodernist writings
has been that transcendence can, does and in fact in a modern world must,
occur in the most seemingly inappropriate of places. That's what TS Eliot's
`Four Quartets' is all about and it's what's crystalised in Holden's
watching Phoebe go round and round on the merry go round. The possibility
of transcendence in a mundane world.

Camille
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