RE: Inverted Forest

Koji Mochidome (mochy@d1.dion.ne.jp)
Fri, 06 Aug 1999 12:48:14 +0900

>In Inverted Forest why does Robert Waner think Raymond Ford is psychotic.
He
>says that theres hardly a line of verse in Ford's work, it's all poetry,
and
>that he writes under the pressure of a "dead weight beauty," and that he is
>the most "gigantic psychotic" that Corrine will ever know.  In the end Ford
>did turn out to be the one with the oedipus complex, but what did Waner
mean?


Raymond Ford has the ability to "find his poetry," not to "invent it."
Waner probably thinks that kind of person cannnot be sane nor lead a
normal life like Seymour, I suppose.

I find "Inverted Forest" a very interesting work regardless of its quality
as
a story. Ray is considered to be a prototype of Seymour. He calls the
Mother the Brain and surrenders to it in "Inverted Forest." And Seymour
shoot his brain off in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

Thank you for giving me your inspiring opinions, everyone.

Koji