TRTR About The Recognitions too?...i.e. the author, not the characters....

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 20.06.2011 14:46, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Stephen Metcalfe at Slate on Salinger:
> His characters look at the world, at the implacable surface of post-war
> affluence, and cannot believe no body else sees the cracks veining slowly
> through it. What will pierce the surface of things? Jesus? The Bodhisatva?
> Psychosis? He never said.
>

Me thinks this is not true. Check out the end of "A Perfect Day For 
Bananafish" which does indeed imply "psychosis". Plus suicide. Not that 
this would be a constructive social alternative to conventional society. 
But it definitely does "pierce the surface of things", I'd say. Perhaps 
I need more context.


> I am not going to link it here because I suspect few will be really interested
> but I recommend
> Metcalfe more recently on Slate re Nozick's libertariansim---and his later
> rejection.
>
> Rawls is cited....
>
> Decently relevant to some of our online political discusioons...
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