RE: Godot: An Introduction

PODESTA,Lesley (Lesley.PODESTA@deetya.gov.au)
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:40:01 +1000 

Malcolm wrote:
	"You mean his being so happy that he couldn't help but ruin it?
I've always
> thought that it was the central working cog of the mechanized
> cliche/metaphor of "people living in g(G)lass houses shouldn't throw
> stones." He threw the stone and years later when his conscience caught
> up
> with him, he threw it at himself instead (i.e.. the suicide)."
> 
	I never thought of that before! Is this because there are no
such things as "Cliff Notes" in Australia (which I've gathered from
various posts are kind of crib sheets) and we just read them ourselves?
But, if I'm doing you a disservice and you are the author of that theory
then bravo, it's great.
	It kind of melds in with my one of my favourite bits - the Glass
parents actually plastering the scrapbooks of their children's lives
into the walls. (ie people who live in Glass houses need to support them
with sentiment and photographs (or the walls come tumbling down,
blah,blah...)

	I'm not quite convinced, however, that it was Seymour's
"conscience" that made him commit suicide.

	Lesley P.
>          
> 
> 
> ----------
> From: 	Malcolm Lawrence[SMTP:malcolm@wolfenet.com]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, 24 February 1998 9:31
> To: 	bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: 	Re: Godot: An Introduction
> 
> PODESTA,Lesley wrote:
> 
> >         Yes, yes Malcolm. I understand. It's the same as my friend
> > talking about looking at AIDS without sentimentality - you can do it
> but
> > it loses a lot of heart and it still doesn't make the pain go away.
> >         That's why I said "a small stone" and not a great big rock -
> ie
> > the symbolism without the pain.
> 
> I caught the subtlety of your detail, which is why I qualified myself
> by
> making it explicit I wasn't trying to offend you. It's just something
> about
> Seymour that has always really bugged me. Not to mention little boys
> in
> general. When I was a boy I didn't understand why other boys wanted to
> hit
> girls on the arm etc. I always found it much more enjoyable to play
> with
> them than berate them. Of course, that's social suicide when you're a
> boy at
> that age. Getting called names for wanting to play with girls, when in
> only
> a few more years you'd get called names if you DIDN'T want to play
> with
> girls. Go figure.
> 
> >         And you know Malcolm, I never thought Seymour threw it
> because
> > of perfection, it was a surfeit of emotion for me.
> 
> >         ps Hope the golf ball didn't cause too much damage.
> 
> I was very lucky. I was stunned, but I didn't even lose consciousness.
> Very
> lucky. I must have a pretty tough forehead. If it had hit my temple I
> probably would have been killed. Sha la la, man. As far as damage is
> concerned, ala Scottie's post, uh, that's for you to know and me to
> find
> out.
> 
> Malcs
> 
>