Subject: Re: Daumier-Smith and Empathy
From: Mattis Fishman (mattis@argoscomp.com)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 12:51:58 GMT
Paul,
That was a really fine review of De Daumier Smith's Blue Period.
I especially liked how you pointed out how the fall of the girl
in the shop window led to the rapid change of Jean's character,
by making him aware that:
she doesn't share his mind, thats why she is startled by his
presence, she has a mind and life seperate from his and doesn't
really know why he should be standing there looking at her.
It seems obvious once you state it, but in the story we are just given
the tremendous build-up, about an event that was not a revelation
but which is a revelation and then we see the sudden transformation.
Thanks.
I had my own DDS moment the other day. While walking up Seventh Ave.
in Manhattan, during rush hour, against the tremendous flow of
commuters into Penn Station to catch their trains home, I happened
to glance up at a second story window, which belongs to a tanning
salon. There was a woman standing there, but her attitude,
the fact that she was motionless, and the very less than perfect
state of my own eyesight, gave me the impression that she was a
mannequin. Now I had never noticed a mannequin there, and I couldn't
quite trust my eyes, so I must have walked for about 5 seconds while
staring up at this window. Suddenly, she broke into what appeared to be
a smile, and waved. Remember, this is New York. I waved back. That's it.
No nuns. However, I did decide to sit down and write to the bananafish.
have a nice weekend,
Mattis
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