Subject: RE: Re: Touch
From: zazie (zazie@raketnet.nl)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 11:17:30 GMT
>>>cecilia wrote:
>>>Ah, but this is one of the quibbles I had with what she had to say.
>>>Bestowing kindness is not difficult at all.
>>Suzanne replied:
>> In your opinion.
>>[...]
>> I don't want to read the book again, sorry to say.
>From the beaverboard:
>"That's the way with you Calcutta people. You want to teach and preach.
> You want to give millions when you are beggars yourselves...." ("Zooey"
>177).
>In order for him to get through to Franny, Zooey has to recognize the
>need inside of himself and dump the rest, the blocks that he's put up
>against the world. He's always willing to help everybody, but he's not
>successful until he seeks the help (spiritual, disembodied help, but
>help nonetheless) of his brothers. Deus ex Seymour.
>
>C.
I really don't get this girl!
In the first place, C.'s central thesis is that "Bestowing kindness is not
difficult at all" and then she describes all the trouble Zooey has to go
through to help Franny!!
Secundus, and more fundamentally, C. has a very strict view on humans:
- Bestowing kindness is not difficult at all.
- Accepting kindness is much more difficult
(if i quote her correctly here)
This is bollox!
She, apperently hasn't grasped on a essential thruth about people that what
goes for one, doesn't necessarily go for the other. Different strokes etc.
Whatever she might do or be, she is definitely NOT home-coming queen
type-sort of girl. This might not be a bad thing.
Z.
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