Re: So stand up and introduce yourself.
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:19:04 -0700 (MST)
Was reading Ranchan on Salinger & Vedanta make a point about how Seymour's
hesitation to repsond immediately to Buddy's writing is a method familiar
to gurus and tells nice little anecdotes of such mediation/hesitation from
Swami Brahmananda...dunno...sometimes I think Salinger's texts easily
transcend organized religious thinking while weaving the best of some of
it into some of the stories...regardless, stopping to meditate or even
think before responding is also a teaching art...
Hey, is anyone a bit amazed at the length and amount of Ranchan's quotes?
Sonny, is this typical?
And finally Jim who i'm really replying to in respect for the dance lit
always does...when thought systems and texts mesh/clash I think it's
pretty possible to track reading tracks...for example...not that
_Finnegan's Wake_ made trendous sense to me or anything, but after reading
Vico's _New Science_ I felt more at home in the Joyce text...Vico may have
been an author Joyce was reading while writing FW...but in all honesty Jim
I enjoy both "thought system tracking" in texts and personal/creative
rambling. There's usually a clear time and place for both types in
academe...funny but the mix is here too and we do use salinger texts
almost like joyce reading vico to continue waking...have I kissed the
ground this list stands on lately? will