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little lake? By any chancedo you happen to know where they gothe
duckswhen it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to knowby any chance?”
(60). In verbalizing his concern Holden begins to experience the unsettling
ubiquity of the koan as it spreads from the private inner to the outer social
domain. At the same time he is becoming aware of its frustrating imponder-
ability. For a koan to be efectivethe meditator must at some point come up
against its diamond-hard resistance to reasonotherwise he will not be driven
to arouse his own latent supra-rational resources: “I realized [in asking the
cabby] it was only one chance in a million” (60).
Later onthis time in Horwitz’s cabHolden presses the issue further:
“HeyHorwitz. . . . You ever pass by the lagoon in Central Park? . . . Wellyou
know the ducks that swim around in it? In the springtime and all? Do you
happen to know where they go in the wintertimeby any chance?” (81). Unlike
his predecessor who dismissed Holden’s question with contemptthis cabby
engages him in a mock-comic round of what is known in Zen as “dharma
duelling” defned by Kapleau as “a verbal joust or battle of ‘wit’ as respects the
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