Subject: RE: Hello and Seymour
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 13 1997 - 16:08:24 GMT
nice link matt--don't forget jds alluded pretty heavily to the wasteland
in his "inverted forest" allusion as well...will
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Matt Kozusko wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Malcolm Lawrence wrote:
>
> >
> > I thought JDS chose the name of "Seymour" because phonetically it says "See
> > more"
> >
> > And a "Sybil" > "Sibyl" means 1. any of certain women consulted as
> > prophetesses or oracles by the ancient Greeks and Romans. 2. a witch;
> > sorceress; fortune teller.
>
> Sibyl is also, of course, the personage who kicks off "The Wasteland,"
> which poem is of some significance in "Bananafish." Sibyl, in most
> accounts, was a prophetess who foresaw deaths.
>
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