Mattis: Re to Re
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:39:05 -0400 (EDT)
Dear Mattis,
You're absolutely wrong about one thing. The five-year-old kid in 'Down at
the Dinghy' is a cleverly trans-sexed male version of my now
thirteen-year-old daughter.
I'm afraid that I must confess a thoroughly nineties crinkle in the little
anecdote about describing Seymour's suicide to my wife. She'd read
APDfB--as Scottie and I both also did--shortly after it fell from Catullus'
tablet and chisel. (We all know, of course, that JDS is merely the Rosemary
(?) Brown of the writing world--who sinks into some sort of trance, and then
writes down stories by long-dead masters of fiction/poetry/prose, just as
the musically illiterate Ms. Brown apparently transcribes masterpieces by
Beethoven, Brahms and Schu'person'. *Have I spelled that correctly,
Scottie?....* I'm told that Chekov takes credit for Esme.... Dickens for
Holden--the 'signature' in line five of TCitR is regretfully excessive....
Blah, blah, blah....) She remembered that the story is about Seymour's
suicide, but she couldn't remember the bananafish connection..... When I
tried to explain THAT, I launched into a story about Seymour grabbing the
yellow dress of a fellow contestant on 'It's a Wise Child'. When I then had
to backtrack and tell her that IaWC was a radio programme, she assumed I was
suddenly talking about somebody from work, also named Seymour, whom had
apparently committed suicide. She then assumed that he he must have done so
because he'd been charged with some sort of sexual assault, for grabbing a
dress that's too long.... Like I said, it's the Nineties.....
I had to change the name of this THREAD because I'm temperamentally
incapable of responding to anything connected with StarWars....
Cheers,
Paul