Subject: RE: suicide
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 23:17:17 EST
I don't think that's quite what Scottie's saying. I think that what he means is that real blood flows through the veins of Holden and Sergeant X. We might be forgiven for thinking that liquid glass circulates through the fragile, transparent, infinitely improbable systems of the breakable Glasses. Their hearts too are made of Glass, and their hair from fine strands of the sort of spun stuff the man at the mall makes little swans and Cinderella carriages and angels from. They may cast rainbows on the wall but turn the lights off and they just disappear They're see-through and precious and merely ... impossible. Huzzah to whoever the critic was who pronounced that the problem with the whole Glass clan was that Salinger loves them more than God loves them, I fancy he has a row of Glasses on his mantlepiece which only may be disturbed for dusting, and then only by him. Holden might be a maladjusted bastard but he ain't made of Glass, if you know what I mean.
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy WonkaOn Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:45:15 Diego M. Dell'Era wrote: > Scottie said > > "I've known Holden & I've known Sergeant X & their > respective girls. But I never came across a Seymour > or a Franny. I'm sure there are such people, just as you > get the occasional bearded lady or Siamese twin. But > as characters they don't speak to my condition." > > Maybe that is the whole issue with the Glass. The fact >that nobody has seen such freaks, but some people would >have liked to, had they known that such freaks existed. We >think we can predict anything that happens in a metropolis, >but we are wrong. Can anyone guarantee that there isn't a >Seymour dying just a few blocks away? In fact, both ideas are >Buddy's excuse for writing. > And one shouldn't forget that there may be equal amounts >of descriptions of Holden or Seymour as misadjusted bastards. > >diego d. > >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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