de daumier-smithh
Andrew Jaw (andrewj@U.Arizona.EDU)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:12:01 -0700 (MST)
Hello all,
Though I'm new to this list i've been lurking for awhile and am happy to
see such a good level of meaningful conversation (as compared to some
lists I've been on)
Well to get to the point, my favorite in Nine Stories is De-Daumier
Smith's Blue Period. As enjoyable as the subtle language, wry humor and
amusing twists of fate are, I feel like I'm missing something from it.
The meaning of the scene with the woman falling in the store window
baffles me. Also why was the man without a nose "pregnant with meaning",
not to mention the Yoshotos night moanings.
And what was the deal with the nun? My feeling is that she was really old
(not young and beautiful as he fantasized) and that his letters were
getting too intimate, thats why they were cut off (but I'm usually wrong
about these things).
Perhaps I'm reading this all wrong and there is no real meaning behind it,
perhaps Smith is just shallow pseduo-intellectual wrought in a world of
high expectations, who thinks and hopes he is more important than he
really is...
Please some input.....
-Andrew