I don't think buddy ever lacked "the drive to get close to seymour," at least not since they were 7 & 5 @ camp hapworth...will On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Bethany M. Edstrom wrote: > Yeah, I'll buy that... > > --- You wrote: > If Seymour hadn't killed himself, would his character have > boiled so in Buddy's mind? With Seymour around to steal > Buddy's ties and bug him with sound advice about not aiming > your marble, would Buddy have allowed himself to become so > obsessed with his brother? In a way, Seymour's death shattered > the sort of glass wall between him and Buddy; with Seymour out > of the picture, perhaps, Buddy eventually found the drive to > get close to Seymour...and consequently, we have all of Buddy's > Seymour stories. > --- end of quoted material --- >