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So, you can read this very closely to On the Road.
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If Dean cared for "nothing but for everything in principle,"
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you could say, conversely, that Salinger cares for
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everything in particular, and in principle,
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nothingness.
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It's nothingness that is the mystical state rather than everythingness.
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And it's interesting to think about
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whether those two are really opposites.
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I think these novels imagined them to be opposites,
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but it's something for you to think about, about whether
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they really are.
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So, Zooey's specificity is the specificity of doctrine,