Re: Godot: An Introduction
Mattis Fishman (mattis@argos.argoscomp.com)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:46:02 -0500 (EST)
Malcolm writes:
>Every time I think about Seymour without the glare of sentimentality
>distracting me I think, "Well, there ya go, only an idiot foolish enough
>to throw something at a girl because their perfection offended you would
>be an idiot foolish enough to take their own life and psychologically fuck
>up the rest of their family for the rest of their constructive lives."
and further:
>but true beauty, true perfection is not smug or arrogant and if you
>realize that and then still insist on throwing something, than you're just
>an evil little fuck.
>I.E.: He put the gun to his head because he thought he was too perfect,
>just like he threw something at that girl because he thought she was too
>perfect, as if he is some kind of arbiter of what is or is not perfect or
>too perfect. Therefore, his smug arrogance denied his perfection and his
>momentary lapse into oblivious lack of concern for his family (and anyone
>else he ever touched in his life) (i.e. suicide) pretty much negates
>whatever level of perfection he believed he had attained. Or perhaps it
>was just his own quaint way of saying "Heh. Guess I'm just a bananafish."
Thanks. I also lose a lot of respect for our resident holy man because
of these two episodes.
Mattis