Re: Salingertori
Michael Sussman (qironzh@rocketmail.com)
Thu, 28 May 1998 09:06:05 -0700 (PDT)
Is there any reason not to take Buddy at his word about Seymour and
about himself (i.e., Salinger) when he writes "...both Seymour's and
my roots in Eastern philosophy...were, are, planted in the Old and New
Testaments, Advaita Vedanta, and Classical Taoism?" (SAI 208)
Though I see no reference to the Old Testament in his works, the rest
of the stuff rings true. Indeed, I have come, over the last weeks, to
understand Seymour's original refusal to wed because of his
over-happiness as coming out of the Classical Taoist tradition, what
Seymour calls "indiscrimination" (in the diary excerts in RHTRC).
------Sussby
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One should depart from life as Odysseus parted from
Nausicaa---blessing it rather than in love with it.
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