Re: Curious Reactions
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:18:01 -0700 (MST)
I get more to this character than him simply being a "tagalong" (though I
love "tagalong" as a partial descriptor and thank you for using it as I'm
afraid I am also disagreeing ((hopefully respectfully))with a bit of your
interpretation. In my reading, the deaf, mute, diminutive gentleman was
at the center of the story. Somehow, his silent understanding and
communication was at the heart of love--maybe why muriel and semour got
hitched can't be said with words? Maybe why the small man quickly became
buddy's
best friend in a car and room full of
vulgarians trying to understand what can probably only be understood by
the couple. (Even Seymours' journal doesn't really explain things.) Love
is simply too confusing to explain well and with words,
but I do leave my half smoked cigars as gifts and believe an enclosed
blank sheet of paper says much by way of explaning how we carpenters may
raise the roof beam! will
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Fluxis wrote:
> I think the point of the deaf old little tagalong was just that he was as
> wonderfully perfect as any deaf old little tagalong can be...and since, in a
> sense, it was perfection that killed Seymour (The conspiracy to make him
> happy? Maybe I'm on a limb with that, but hey...) and maybe he just wasn't so
> perfect anymore in buddies mind. Hoewever, I also never really got from buddy
> any annoyance with the old man, maybe he just wished he would say something,
> something that would be perfect.
>
> -ecas
>