Subject: Re: Everybody is a Nun
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 00:47:21 EST
Maybe
that line "Everyone is a nun" simply means that everyone gets close to god
(or God) more than they realize, but that, like nuns, we need to realize
that we can't know god completely, as some people might try to, and see that
we are all students, who can never understand everything, not teachers. I am
being forced off this computer, but hopefully will get a chance to continue
this later.
Catherine------------------------------------------
I originaly thought this "Everybody is a nun" was the same type of statement
we find in F&Z and Teddy about everyone being god or holy. I am thinking now
that JDS was saying that everyone is in a cloister or behind a wall. When
the shop girl starts to fall DDS reaches out to stop her fall and his
fingers hit the glass.
he also realizes that she doesn't share his mind, thats why she is startled
by his presence, she has a mind and life seperate from his and doesn't
really know why he should be standing there looking at her. He realizes the
same thing about the nun. She knows nothing of his ideas and dreams about
her, she is living her own life unaware of him. In part this is a
deliverance from a creeping solipism for DDS.
The wall theme is present in "For Esme". What does one wall say to the
other? Meetcha at the corner. without this meeting at the corner we are
either isolated behind our own wall or just solipisticaly assume that
anothers experience is the same behind their wall as our own. DDS's
experience is, I think, a direct seeing of the reality of other selves.
After re-readind this a few times, DDSBP has moved up in my opinion
somewhere not too far below "For Esme" my all time favorite.
Charles's meetcha at the corner is more than a riddle, it's essential
for real honest communication of the life and soul saving variety.
HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO
HELLO
HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO
HELLO
Paul M
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