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Bethany M. Edstrom (Bethany.M.Edstrom@Dartmouth.EDU)
Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:08:06 -0500 (EST)

--- You wrote:
One Gun Shot, a
Hypermodern Sophisticate version of a rock? I don't think so, but it made an
interesting tangent, don't ya think?
--- end of quote ---

a very interesting tangent. and I do think the bullet and the rock are related,
somehow. Unfortunately my brain has shut down (I notice I even temporarily lost
my grasp of capitalization rules--forgive me, Scottie) and so will my computer,
shortly.

The main difference, as I see it, between the bullet and the rock is that the
bullet IS deadly. It takes the see-more-glass theory too far and makes it too
serious. It's one thing to be a little boy and throw a rock at a girl (I mean,
all literary analysis aside, boys do that, OK?) and quite another to aim a
bullet through his brain. He knew what he was doing. I guess I don't get how he
becomes more accessible to the world after his suicide.

Thanks for all the food (bananas?) for thought, ecas and others. I'll be back
in the morning.

Bethany