Re: Pilgrim Books

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> From: Erin McLaughlin <erinseyes@hotmail.com>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: Pilgrim Books
> Date: Friday, 16 October 1998 13:08
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> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Emily Friedman <bananafish_9@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Pilgrim Books
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
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> >    I've often wondered why folks who have no interest whatsoever in
> > spiritual matters would be interested in these books.( the Glass
> stories,
> > the rest of you  can have that snotty Holden Caufield as far as I'm
> > concerned.) 

Well ... I think that maybe it's all a matter of taste, and what you go
into a book to get out of it. For example, I think someone could enjoy a
legal thriller if they had no interest in law if it was clever and
well-written. Likewise, Salinger skillfully weaves his spirituality into
the fabric of his work to the point where it is just another gas floating
around in the ether of his world. I'm no huge fan of say, fencing, but
that's there in TCIR and it doesn't impair my enjoyment any.

Camille
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