Subject: Re: suicide
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 12:49:42 EST
Jim wrote:
> I think the most certain thing we can say is that the
>Glass canon is the product of a suicide survivor's attempt to make sense
out
>of the loved one's suicide. It's a powerful impulse, it's undeniable, and
>it's there.
Yes, I agree.
> We can guess,
Yes, I agree.
>and my guesses have been for specific reasons and
>have been directed by Salinger's fiction,
This is _not_ meant to piss you off, but I don't clearly recall your guesses
except that of "cowardice" and I don't see how your guesses have been
directed by Salinger's fiction. (And I think there was a bad marriage.)
> but they are still guesses.
Yes. Mine, yours, all of the critics.
>Buddy is writing to figure this out himself, so it seems unlikely we'll
ever have a
>clear, inarguable answer.
Yes, I agree.
--Bruce
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