Subject: RE: RE: Touch
From: zazie (zazie@raketnet.nl)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 10:47:04 GMT
> --- horanp <horanp@kenyon.edu> wrote:
> > I think that's really brilliant, Cecilia, and a personal kudos for
> > using a
> > word like "doppelganger" (my computer doesn't have the two dots which
> > I don't know how to spell).
>
> It's called an umlaut, and if you don't have the ability to do it on
> your keyboard, in most cases, you can write it as an "oe", i.e.
> doeppelganger.
>
> > This is interesting too. You bring up healing: is there perhaps a
> > Biblical element to laying of the hands on one's head and kissing
> > (washing) of the feet? This does not seem to apply with Seymour's
> > back, though, nor perhaps at all due to the Zen theme presented
> > even before "Nine Stories" begins.
>
> I think it's a mistake to try to apply any one, simple answer to
> anything our man in Cornish has written. Yes, it's possible that
> there's a Biblical element in it, I'd say even probable, given the
> nature of these stories. However, I don't know that there's a Biblical
> element in all of them, or if there is, it's to mask a more Eastern set
> of beliefs.
>
>
> Regards,
> Cecilia.
Okay guys,
I sorta think that Cecy is not quite catching on to horanp's sarcasm here,
or, maybe, Cecy should be recommended for not reacting to his sarcasm?
Or maybe horanp wasn't sarcastic? Nooooooo way. We should all applaud
Cecilia for the fact that she won't let herself be provoked by Peter!
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