Re: Teddy

Hapworth2 (Hapworth2@aol.com)
Thu, 01 Jan 1998 19:23:52 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 98-01-01 19:01:09 EST, you write:

<< .He didn't really kill himself,he just did what he knew he was going to
 do.Jump in. >>

On page 193 of the pretty white book that, for some unexplained reasoning of
irony was published by Little Brown Books(?) Teddy says:

         "this might be the day that they change the water or something...I
might walk up to the edge of it, just to have a look at the bottom...and my
sister might come up and sort of push me in"

This doesn't suggest that Teddy in any way thought of killing hinmself.  This,
as I saw it, was nothing but a vision that he had had and was using as an
example.  If he was planning on commiting suicide, what was the point in him
telling Nicholson that story in the first place?