Subject: Re: Consummations
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 00:59:33 EST
Jim writes:
>Buddy, though more pedestrian, may be more admirable. If, of course, he
>could ever find something to write about besides Seymour.
That is precisely the thing I am talking about. I think Buddy's conundrum is whether it is ... I am tempted to say nobler in the mind ... to - aha! To die nobly for a cause, or to live humbly for one! On one hand, we have the poet-seer, the subject of family hagiography and accusations of genius. We could argue that he was truly great, we could argue that he is only seen as much in the light of his suicide, as many artists are. Then there is Buddy, who lives a comfortable, humdrum life. Perhaps what Buddy is asking by attempting to justify his brother's suicide is: what if it was me? It easily could have been. I might have died nobly for a cause. Why was it him and not me?
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