Subject: Re: Rites of passage
Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU
Date: Wed Jun 18 1997 - 18:05:10 GMT
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:17:13 -0600 (MDT) bananafish@lists.nyu.edu wrote:
>yes, _Mrs. Dalloway_ though her essays and short stories are among my
>personal favorites...
thanks for the suggestions, will. actually i guess i lied when i said _to the
lighthouse_ was my first run-in with ms woolf. i'd read her essay "a room of
one's own" just a few months ago which prompted me to read _to the lighthouse_.
>
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>also matt, I wondered why you thought john gedsudski would kill
>himself--aside from linking him to the laughing man, what's cluing you
>into a potential suicide? It seems to me that he's tough on
>hearts--mary's and the kids'...but I don't get how he's tough with his own
>heart...will
>
i re-read my post after reading this and it was one of the most convoluted and
confusing thoughts ever sent onto the net. i didn't mean that gedsudski himself
was dead or would soon be dead; i meant that gedsudski as mary's boyfriend, the
gedsusdski who was the laughing man, was dead. i mean, we are all different
people at different points in our lives and i think gedsudski's life experienced
one of those character-altering points. that's all i meant. i do however think
that he was tough on himself (assuming the connection with the laughing man).
his most heroic interpretation of himself was hideously deformed.--matt
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