Subject: Re: Literary Faith
From: William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 18:52:53 EST
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, LR Pearson, Arts 99 wrote:
> I always get a tremendous buzz and feeling of
> sprirituality from reading the really beautiful stories, which I have
> never gotten from anything which actually detailed strictly religious
> ideas...
Yes! I think there's something about the fictive reality of Salinger's
later texts that makes spritiual imagining more viable than reading
bibles, I Ching, Upanisads, etc..
DDSBP for example, does more to give me a sense of epiphany and clear
realization than reading about satori as a god seeker. I
always thought it was the aesthetic context of it that tickled my
spiritual buzz but there may be more here than spiritual and aesthetic
linking...why is Salinger attracting spiritual readings with relatively
littel spritual text?
will
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