Re: Love song of Alfred L. Theorist
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:12:02 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 9/19/99 2:38:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in writes:
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Hmm, that seems to be the old seek and ye shall find routine to me.
Sure one could look all one wants, but then eventually it's a question
of what one sees, right?
And _looking_ over at my long rambling post, I just realised I sent it
off
then. I came back looking to edit and send it now, and found it very
much in my bananafish in-mail folder.
Oh well.
Sonny >>
Of course if we're predisposed to see certain connections we're probably
going to see them -- we will tend to emphasize the similarities and ignore
dissimilarities. This argument works both ways...if we're disinclined to see
a connection we will do the reverse. But again I'd emphasize degree of
correspondence. I'm not terribly committed to the idea of "inverted forest"
being an image Salinger lifted from the Vedas. I see it as one possibility
-- I'm not going to discount it until I've explored it. But I wouldn't take
it for granted either.
Jim