Re: So stand up and introduce yourself.
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:11:00 +1100
> 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.
On the contrary ... I think it was only the beginning. The difference is,
it was Salinger's last overtly didactic expression (which is why I don't
think it entirely works). In his subsequent works, the spirituality is kind
of a ghost, never quite appearing anywhere but between the lines and
infusing every word. I think that the Glass canon *is* Salinger's ultimate
expression of his spirituality - strange as it may seem - it *is* his Jesus
Prayer, which is why none of us are allowed to hear him chant it.
Camille
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