Subject: Re: Infinite Jest, Laughing Man and Too Much Joy. . .
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Date: Tue Jun 17 1997 - 13:10:53 GMT
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:06:07 -0600 (MDT) bananafish@lists.nyu.edu wrote:
>D does fine with exploring motivation for why Mary Hudson and John
>Gedsuski break up in the laughing man and I would simply add that
>gedsudski's ugliness is exposed to be beyond skin deep when he chills the
>kids by killing their hero...will
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>
. . .possibly because their hero, happily-involved-with-gorgeous-babe gedsudski,
was dead. i always assumed the laughing man was a portrayal of gedsudski
himself and so it made sense to have the laughing man die once his happiness
with mary hudson had ended. i hate to say it, but i probably would have done
the same.--matt
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