Not wasteland, but a great inverted forest with al
Jaramillojp@kktv.com
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 17:33:04 -0700
I love the attention given to Inverted Forest here!
I have always thought that maybe Ray Ford just wanted to get away from
the literary circle that Corrine seemed to be immersed in. I always
thought of Ray being like Seymour but Seymour stayed with his wife and
maybe Ray decided to give up and give all to poetry instead of the
marriage. I think when he writes "back to the brain" he really means
that he is leaving the institution of publishing and reading that
Corrine represents. Maybe she also represents reading and not living and
paying more attention to the internal or something like that. I think
that maybe him leaving her has more to do with writing and living then
maybe being social about poetry. I see Raymond as the model of a recluse
like Salinger while Seymour is at parties and on vacation at the beach
and playing the piano while Ray is writing and drinking at a card table.
Is that too crazy to relate maybe Ray to the way that Sal felt or at
least I hope and pray he felt about publishers. I mean maybe Salinger
wanted to show a guy leaving the sort of business of writing and just
getting back to the dirty business of writing.
Just wanted to join in on everyone's view of the Inverted Forest
Suerte
John Paul