Re: second opinion
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 01 May 1998 18:42:37 +1000
> I've also read the comparison of Holden's journey to the Buddha, and
I'm not
> buying that one either.
Funny you should mention that - my sole academic concession to JDS while I
was
at school was in my major religion assignment (I got full marks for it by
the way (: ) which was on the interrelation and influence of the works of
Buddha on Salinger's
writings. They're pretty convincing, there's some quite spooky parallels,
especially when you know that Salinger was very much into the works of Sri
Ramakrishna at the time he wrote TCIR (not to mention the many influences
later on). I'll have to dig up that assignment and post some of those
parallels on Bananafish.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE
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