Subject: 21st Century Franny? (was "Re: So long fishers")
From: L. Manning Vines (lmanningvines@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 22:59:59 GMT
Tim said:
<< But she's a product of her times in two ways: one, she received an
extraordinary "education" from her brothers, so that makes her unique in one
aspect that I would find hard to imagine reproducing now; two, she was in
school at a time when, to use a word I dislike, it was more fashionable to
read about religion. . . There was much less emphasis on popular culture.
I guess a way of turning your question on its head is: if Franny's story
were happening today, and if it were told by a less ascetic writer, how much
of a role would television, music, and computer connections play in her
life, and would there be enough room left over for her spiritual crisis? >>
My perspective on this is undoubtedly a unique one, but I am reading the
list and sending this post from up on a mountain from which I and my peers
do not very regularly descend, at a school where televisions are scarce and
books are plentiful, where everyone reads and discusses and writes about
Great Books. In the sophomore year we study a geocentric system of
astronomy whose author claims to be seeking the Divine through mathematics,
as well as the Bible and the "A" saints. And I think I know several
Frannies.
-robbie
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