Subject: Re: sentence of death
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 08:19:45 EST
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Scottie Bowman wrote:
> Many violent suicides, the hangings & the shootings,
> seem to have the quality of self-executions. The man
> within has passed sentence of death on someone who
> does not deserve to live. Most of us at one time or another
> have known sufficient despair to see death as preferable
> to this life. I suspect the need to adminster the extreme
> punishment is rarer & less conscious. And anyway, by the time
> the felon kicks away the stool or fires the gun he has,
> in my view, crossed over into madness. Yet the self-hatred
> may be there - in nascent form - in more of us than can
> bring ourselves to face it.
>
> Could it have been there in Seymour?
I fear this leads, again, to a discussion about Seymour's
possible pediphilia. Thank goodness I'll be in Croatia for that. I
really don't want to listen to the six bananaed bananafish being Seymour's
hand and his johnson.
-jason
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