Subject: Re: Consummations
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 22:33:08 EST
In a message dated 2/17/00 8:10:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
invertedforest@angelfire.com writes:
> Exactly. That's what I mean. Buddy is the `to be', Seymour is the `not to
be'.
> It's never those who have committed suicide who are around to contemplate
> whether or not it was the right decision, but those who didn't. There are
> countless artists and other productive people who live out the significant
> portion of their lives, then for decades squander in mediocrity. It is they
> who must ultimately wonder - was it worth it? Would it have been better if
I
> had just shuffled off this mortal coil? Like Nabokov's `waxwing slain
through
> the false azure of the window pane' - slamming into the window in our world
> but passing imperceptibly into the next in spirit - Buddy is the one who
hit
> the window, while Seymour is the one who kept going.
>
> ---
> Louise Z. Brooks
Are you saying that Nabokov, for example, is worthless as a human being (and
that is life has no meaning) beyond that which he created?
Pretty low view of human life and an inflated view of art. Pretense and hot
air.
remember that Seymour's suicide was an insolvable **problem.** :)
Jim
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