Re: if the elevator operators are arch-enemies

All right, I know there's more that I want to say than this, I'll come back
tomorrow. But before I forget this, my knee-jerk reaction is this:
There was a skit on the old Kids In The Hall Show where there was a guy who
watched people from a rooftop. He watched them with one eye between thumb
and forefinger, squinting. Then he'd bring his fingers together, saying
"Squish his head, squishing his head". Then, there was this other guy
sitting next to him doing the same thing, only his fingers were vertical.
"Pinching their heads, pinching their heads." he'd say. They were
competing, arguing over which was better, to pretend to be squishing their
heads or pinching their heads. It was very funny, yet disturbingly honest
at the same time.
tina

>I came across this passage, when rereading "The Laughing Man." It bugged me
>before, when I wasn't on the list; wanted to see what y'all think now
>
>"...all of us circulating ominously, and incognito, throughout the city,
>sizing up elevator operators as potential arch-enemies, whispering
>side-of-the-mouth but fluent orders into the ears of cocker spaniels,
>drawing beads, with index fingers, on the foreheads of arithmetic teachers.
>And always waiting, waiting for a decent chance to strike terror and
>admiration in the nearest mediocre heart."
>
>What are the consequences of a world full of people who do this, or at
>least, the consequences if some people think this way? wrong to question
>it? ... like when Franny was accused of fearing competition, even if it
>wasn't exactly that; wrong to think her beloved Emily Dickinson wasn't
>trying "to strike terror and admiration in the nearest mediocre heart?" and
>the section men; maybe uneasiness about judgment
>
>not to say that such a world actually exists, but curious to know what
>y'all think
>
>luke
>
>
>
>---
>"I have seen the light and it is good"
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