Consummations


Subject: Consummations
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 19:08:21 EST


Louise offers, of the latter day Seymour:

> What we have here is nothing more or less than Hamlet's immortal question - to be or not to be.

I think what we have here--that is, within Buddy's implacable SAI
theorizing--is precisely the opposite. Hamlet speaks for the west;
Seymour, in the post-Bananafish conception, speaks for the east.
Hamlet's decision (which, incidentally, should not be reduced to a
matter of suicidal contemplation, since by the end of the soliloquy he
has arguably shifted from musing over being and not being to killing
or not killing) turns on fear of the unknown. If the everlasting had
not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter, he had done three acts
ago, but since the potential ills of afterlife could conceivably dwarf
those of the solid-soiled flesh, he's content to stick it out.
Seymour, on the other hand, knows where he's going, and he is in a
fantastic hurry to shuffle off.

-- 
Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
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