Subject: Re: hands
From: tiffany anne hanulec (thanulec@brynmawr.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 21 1997 - 12:17:32 GMT
At 10:51 AM 2/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm looking for references to hands...in SAI, Buddy talks about how hands are
>important to Seymour and how they figure in the poem about the widower. (THe
>widower only let the cat bite his LEFT hand, "so maybe as to preserve his right
>hand for important things in crises such as forehead hitting and breast smiting
>(sic).")
I always read that as a blatant misreading on the part of Buddy. I though
the breast smiting and forehead hitting were too blatantly ridiculous to be
anything but tongue in cheek. My personal reading of it was always that the
biting of the left hand was a distinct reference to marriage and that the
white cat, and one that was part of household was supposed to maybe be the
dead wife. This also would make sense in light of Seymours frustrating
relationship with his own wife.
WEll, just my $.02
Tiffany
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