Re: Looking (for) Glass

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:59:37 -0500 (EST) 

I was wondering...eh...while you were up there, could you polish up the
space station a bit?

love and kisses, 

Jim

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:21:38 -0600 John Touzios
<JTouzios@mwumail.midwestern.edu> writes:
>paul,
>  are you saying what i think you're saying?  i've come to the 
>somewhat proud 
>conclusion that reading, say, a zen story involves much more than the 
>processing of information via the cerebral cortex.  the story was 
>written 
>before the author ever started transmitting it with his or her words, 
>and most 
>of the appreciation of the story involves tapping into that original 
>story.  
>now, if the glass family is fictional, this will affect the actual 
>story.  i'm 
>remembering salinger refering to seymour telling stories that he had 
>to have 
>made up from thin air, never having had contact with, say, an 
>attractive 
>mother having an affair.  what does this tell me?  it never happened, 
>but it 
>might as well have?  i'm not content with it, folks.  is this a puzzle 
>to 
>meditate on?  if seymour ever truly existed then you can go back and 
>figure it 
>out for yourself, like teddy could go back and figure out the way his 
>body was 
>put together.  according to the book of john, the logos took physical 
>form and 
>walked the earth. wow!  it did?  i had a dream once in which i had 
>buddy's and 
>seymour's library packed up in books before me.  there were some 
>paintings in 
>the boxes as well, and i didn't even know that seymour was supposed to 
>paint 
>(as i've heard mentioned in references to the new salinger book.)  the 
>thing 
>about the dream, guys, is that most of the book titles were never 
>mentioned in 
>the salinger stories; i just sort of knew that these titles (ones i 
>had never 
>heard of) were supposed to be there.  moreover, i could feel buddy and 
>seymour 
>on the books.  if seymour never really existed then i guess i've 
>failed this 
>little test.  at least for now,
>  john
>>===== Original Message From Paul Kennedy <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu> 
>=====
>>Hey John!  Welcome aboard!  I'm relatively new myself, but I'd be 
>willing to
>>bet that there hasn't been a more nearly metaphysical entry onto the 
>list in
>>a long time:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  my question is:  is the glass family real?
>>
>>
>>
>>Hmmmmmmm.  Where to begin?
>
>"Man the most complex, intricate and delicately constructed 
>machine of all creation, is the one with which the osteopath 
>must become familiar."  A.T. Still
>
>"Everyone seems to know how useful it is to be useful.
> No one seems to know how useful it is to be useless."
>                           Chuang Tzu
>
>

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