[Bananafish] Salinger...Kafka and his times (On the flightline in the Red Zone)

[Michael Anello]

without ignorance, you wouldn't have enlightenment.

"therefore act without doing anything
and teach without saying anything
things will arise, let them come
things will disappear, let them go
have, but do not possess
act, but do not expect
when your work is done, forget it
and it will last forever"

without conformity, there wouldn't be rebellion.

artists are always wanting to be edgy and unique.  after awhile, a truly
edgy and unique artist decides to create art that is not-edgy....and
not-unique.  but, it is in its isn't-ness.

-mike

On 6/14/07, Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE <daniel.yocum at peterson.af.mil>
wrote:
>
>
> Kafka was not a contemporary rebel against his times like the artist
> and authors of his day.  Kafka did not declare himself through his style
> or content as an outsider attacking the established, rather he is the
> insider, a cog in the machine that is different, that doesn't quite fit.
> He is not the alien invading organism wreaking havoc on the host, rather
> he is the cancerous cell that is trying to function properly in its
> place but cannot due to its nature granted by the fate of its birth.
>
> Salinger in his own ill-fitted way (to society) is essentially the same.
>
> Since childhood I have examined the mundane furniture of my environment
> during times of inactivity.  I have always imagined Seymour's childhood
> to be no different.  The angularity of a tiny pebble, the color
> gradations on the stem of a weed, the length of a small beetles antennae
> compared to his legs were never profound but a person, if not careful,
> could live their whole life surrounded by these details in ignorance.
> All the world's sharpness worn down into vague smoothness, a blandness
> of monotony.
>
> Daniel
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