Subject: Re: suicide
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 12:20:07 EST
In a message dated 3/1/00 10:39:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
sgabriel@willamette.edu writes:
<< I think Seymour just went about his life, met a
women, lived through a war, and then found himself standing on a diving
board above an empty pool.
S. >>
Yeah, I can see that. 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. We can guess, and my guesses have been for specific reasons and
have been directed by Salinger's fiction, but they are still guesses. Buddy
is writing to figure this out himself, so it seems unlikely we'll ever have a
clear, inarguable answer.
Jim
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