Re: Carpenters...
Pierrot65@aol.com
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:39:00 -0500 (EST)
All right, sorry, I forgot the reason I sent that ridiculous post. To answer
the question Abra was initially asking, "which does Salinger prefer
(Christian/Jewish)" I think the allusion to Eliot shows the confusion of his,
or Seymour's, or anyone's attempt to decide. "The Waste Land" mixes
everything, every discipline you could imagine, and if Salinger is making a
point about the two ... I'm not sure what it is, except to try to display them
both, throw them into the soup, so to speak. If modernism is primarily about
fragmentation, and Eliot is our primary modernist, and Salinger is channeling
Eliot's modernism in this case, then maybe what Salinger is saying is that
everything is fragmented and he is presenting just a slice of both in order to
show the devastation the modern world has wreaked on our ability to believe,
in anything. I don't know. It's hard to believe I fragmented that idea into
two posts, but I'm a modern guy (No religion, No confession...etc.)
rick