Re: hemingway blech?
the.tourist@excite.com
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:43:02 -0800 (PST)
Rick wrote:
> to me, it doesn't matter if Seymour's poems > (whether we ever see
them or not) are,
> objectively, great.
> I think it's enough that Buddy et al think so -- > their thinking it makes
it so.
I think you're on to something there. Was Seymour really that great a guy?
This sounds sarcastic, but I'm serious. Consider: we only see Seymour
through Buddy's pretty prejudiced writer's lens, and we love him? Don't we?
Well, some of us do. Yet some of us went to high school with a Seymour or
two, and while we weren't outright cruel to him, we did think him kind of
queer and kept a distance.
So if Mrs. Fedder or the Matron of Honor brought up any good points about
Seymour being kind of weird and unpredictable and a little frightening (he
did shoot himself, didn't he), we wouldn't agree, but why? Because through
Buddy's lens, we pretty well have to love Seymour.
That is, unless we've grown so sick of the exclusive, whining, reticent
Glasses that we think Seymour got what he deserved anyway. That's not me,
by the way, but I'll wager there's a few of us out there who would rather
this list be called Catcher.com.
--Brendan
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