Re: ZOOEYCAM
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:22:43 +1100
That's quite OK Rick - I agree with you too. It's not at all productive to
look at any work from one sole vantage point at the exclusion of others. I
think a lot should be made of the Zen angle, but as you say, not *too*
much. It's a key but not *the* key (but what is ???)
Camille
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> Camille --
>
> I actually agree with everything you said about zen (and I meant to say
that
> one of Holden's choices, or his daydream of the cliff, was to catch them,
not
> to suggest that he had decided. My bad.). I think all I meant was that
the
> zen angle often overwhelms everything else, that many Buddhist approaches
to
> the fiction that I've read work toward the exclusion of other
interpretations.
> I think also that many of these approaches focus too much on Salinger's
> personaI encounters with zen: not that that isn't important, because it
> obviously has a bearing, but so much of the talk about Salinger the man
is
> wild speculation that I would rather not hear some lit-critic's clever
> guesses. (And by the way, did anybody catch the jackass who did a piece
for
> Esquire a couple of years ago, Richard R-something? This dipstick crows
all
> article long about his respect for Jerry's privacy, then goes creeping in
the
> bushes and leaves a note in the mailbox. I've thought ever since that
that may
> be the reason we haven't seen Hapworth yet.) I think the zen angle is
maybe,
> probably the most rewarding approach, but it is not the only one, as you
said.
> Like a typical man I was thinking with my fingers instead of my brain.
>
> rick