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after hearing his voice, is that very essential divine sound,
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meaningless sound.
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And so, this is how Salinger balances the syncretic,
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the sort of empty mysticism of Seymour and Buddy,
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with the embodied, doctrinal, specific insistence that
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we see from Zooey, from the insistence on human
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specificity, the Fat Lady, the very material human fleshly person.
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Salinger's own novel performs in this way, and that's how you would
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want to think about moments
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like on the bottom of 180.
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This is describing the bedroom of
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Seymour and Buddy as Zooey walks in.