Subject: Re: tell me the old, old story
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 07:56:23 EST
In a message dated 2/18/00 2:26:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,
rbowman@indigo.ie writes:
<< Would it be unbearably naïve if we simply welcomed a writer
who could tell a story in such a way that one was enveloped
with its persuasiveness (the feeling that: 'this is the way it must
have been') - & not feel obliged to justify one's pleasure by
laboriously unearthing symbols, allusions & other improbable
connections that never once entered his head?
They're only yarns, for Chrissake.
Scottie B. >>
I've liked Matt's posts lately, but the connection of easter chick with
communion wafer and chicked sandwhich was (I thought) stretching it. I'd
tend to locate the meaning of those symbols in something a bit more affective
in the girl. That whatever feeling made it difficult for her to throw out or
bury a dead easter chick made it difficult for her to get rid of the chicken
sandwhich. I think the chick-chicken connection is meaningful here. And
that this still unidentified feeling sheds light on her feelings about the
Gangly Boy with the razor blade problem.
Jim
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