[lit-ideas] Re: Death of a Thinker
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:19:19 -0600
I don't quite know why, but your comments remind me of something I read
in "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" by Thomas Merton. He quoted Karl
Barth as saying that he, Barth, the good German Lutheran theologian,
actually liked listening to MOZART and NOT BACH when he was writing.
Merton claimed that it was more likely that MOZART "saves" more than Bach.
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>For years I have had an odd theory -- that among religious people
>Protestants hate Updike and Catholics love him. It has something to do with
>the notion
>of what redemptivity or redemption looks like. I'm not sure how this
>translates into secularists' perspectives of his books. I used to have
>endless
>arguments with a good friend of mine who is a devout Catholic -- she
>perpetually
>argued that the Rabbit series was redemptive and optimistic while I found it
>the complete antithesis (I have tried very hard to like Updike to no
>effect). I don't doubt that Updike is a good author. But his ...message....
>is
>hard for me to understand.
>
>Julie Krueger
>
>
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>I'm betting you like Updike, Bill?
>
>____
>
>Remember the kid in "A&P" quits his job, doesn't get the girl, but
>instead gets a sense of the immensity of life's choices in the last
>paragraph.
>
>Updike was somewhat optimistic.
>
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