Subject: Re: Everybody is a Nun
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 13:23:06 EST
I won't say anything about DDSBP right now
because I need to read it again. I guess what both of the others say is that
we should be more respectful, and have more humility. I think as not only
humans but humans in rather good circumstances we take too much for granted,
and that if we maybe were more respectful to other humans, but also to the
objects around us, the ground we walk on (which, don't forget, Seymour said
was Holy Ground) maybe we would all be a bit better off.
Catherine ---------------------------------------
Have you ever been under a tree after a spring shower and someone, usually
mischievously, shakes the lower branches and you get a two second shower
from the rain that had been resting on the leaves?
Standing here under the bananafish tree your post has shaken a branch or
two for me.
It's all too easy to take people and life for granted. People are fragile
temporary and beautiful when our eyes are open.
Yes, do read DDSBP again. I didn't get alot from it the first time for
whatever reason. JDS has painted the story in breathless strokes and it may
be representative of an experience of direct reality that happened to him
once. On reading F&Z and SaI I assumed that these works were simply
influenced by his eastern interests, and this may be so. I am wondering now
if there was not an experience that JDS had that made him get interested in
easterd philosophy and religion. Daumier-Smith's seeing the girl in the
shopcase and then having the sun come up and speed to the bridge of his nose
at 93 million miles a second so that the urinals and bedpans in the shop
window became a shimmering field of exquisite, twice-blessed, enamel
flowers, may reflect something very real that happened to JDS.
Oh well, who knows for sure. Thankyou for your lovely post, I am still a
trifle damp.
( Tout le monde est une nonne. )
Paul M
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