Matthiessen tried to understand GS for the readers, but you can’t wrap a knife in pretty wallpaper and call it a day. Matthiessen made no sense with his paralogues and GS was just an awful person. The book follows Matthiessen and his partner “GS”, and I did not warm up to either men. I understand that during the 60-70, associating drugs to eastern philosophy was a thing, but putting that in a book isn’t going to make me believe that the person is serious about learning (or even knows what their saying). The point where I gave up was when he was talking about doing LSD while “reveling in the lessons and scriptures of Buddhism”. What I mean is, I often wondered if Matthiessen himself knew what he was talking about. Sometimes I feel that the concepts of Buddhism aren’t so hard to grasp, but scholarly scriptures make it harder. I know Peter Matthiessen is supposed to be a student of Buddhism, but if I wanted to read a book about Buddhism, I wouldn’t have picked up a book called “The Snow Leopard”.Įvery 5 seconds we would drift off into some gabble about Buddhism that made no sense. An alternative title to this book should be: “The Snow Leopard: As elusive in this book as in real life”.įor a book that was supposed to be a travelogue into the world of the snow leopard, there were endless pages of dense reflections on Buddhism.
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