Re: Revelations
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 02:09:41 -0700 (PDT)
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The reason that I started this is by way of a good thunk I thunked while
reading Hap. in a doctor's waiting room.
OK, both Tedd & Seymour predicted their own demise & other events. Are we
to believe these as self-fulfilling prophecies? As supernatural? As higher
conciousness?
Seymour died @ age, what, 33 was it?
I wonder who died in Seymour's life @ the age of 33.
Seymour behaves in a way I think is in accord with a particular survivors'
syndrome.
It works like this: Johnny's father shoots himself @ age 35. Johnny grows
up secretly believing that he, too, will die @ 35. Not necessarily that he
will also commit suicide, just that he grows up unable to picture himself
alive after 35.
The symptoms fit. Just like Holden's family reacts to Allie's death in a
DSM 4 textbook manner.
Thor
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