Re: So stand up and introduce yourself.

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J J R wrote:
 
> There are probably well over a hundred upanishads, but
> something like 15 or so of them are considered the principal ones (BOY do
> I need to catch up again).  

Sort of like Pound's Cantos, eh?
 
> Teddy is...eh...well, it has a Buddhist Feel to it, let me tell you.  I'm
> not sure that the view of reincarnation in Teddy is completely buddhist,

That's odd--what do you make of all the Vedanta (Hindu, no?) experts who
have written rare treatises on Salinger's preoccupation with particular
Vedantic tenets?  "Teddy" being something of the end of the line for
Sal's published spiritual adventures, I would expect it also to be the
ultimate Vedantic gesture.

Thanks for the fine post... 


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Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu

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