Subject: Re: Holmes
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 18:30:24 EST
What we have here is nothing more or less than Hamlet's immortal question - to be or not to be. It lies within a person's own mind as to which of these directions they choose to take - strange as it may seem, in many forms of drug counselling it's a question they ask you. Would you like to go up, or would you like to go down? It's your choice and you have to make it now, and we'll stand by whichever direction you choose. The characters of Buddy and Seymour are the opposite sides of the same coin, the one who chose to be and the one who chose not to be. Which is, perhaps, why JDS has managed in some ways to straddle both states himself in the ensuing years.
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy Wonka>I honestly don't know. And Buddy, obviously, has been wrestling with it. >The entire opening of S:AI, up to "Oh, this happiness is strong stuff", is >one attempt. > >And I must admit one longish passage later in S:AI has always intrigued me. >I quote: > >"I wholeheartedly fear that there is a type of reader who may find it >somewhat winning of me to have lived to be forty; i.e., unlike Another >Person on the page, not to have been 'selfish' enough to commit suicide and >leave my Whole Loving Family high and dry. (I said I'd finish this, but I'm >not going to make it after all. Not because I'm not a proper iron man but >because to finish it right I'd have to touch on--my God, *touch on*--the >details of his suicide, and I don't expect to be ready to do that, at the >rate I'm going, for several more years.)" > >Not sure what to make of it, but it always has puzzled me. > >--Bruce > >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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