Subject: Re: PKD Question
From: Catherine Marie (tangerineness@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 19:40:02 EST
interesting, the idea of seeing yourself within the world, the glass being a
way to see your place within the context of the world. By being married
Zooey would not be able to do this, he would be forced to think within a
smaller window, he wouldn't be "allowed" to look out the window, only within
the train. Maybe there is a little regret that Seymour was married and that
marriage caused him to be told not to look out the windows at the trees, I
mean Zooey fearing that this will be his fate if he is married. Fearing, I
suppose, that he won't be able to see his place within the world if he can't
look beyond the immediate. He wouldn't be able to be humbled in the way that
I think a lot of people who ride the train are when they look out the window
and see how much is there that is bigger than them, beyond their realm of
existance. I don't really think marriage necessarily does this, but perhaps
in the context of marriage for the sake of marriage it may be true. I hope
this makes some sense.
Catherine
>The practise of sitting and watching the world go by on a train really
>highlights the fact that glass is a substance that both reflects and
>transmits light - that is, you may see yourself and your world
>concurrently, the outside and inside combined, the you and the them on the
>same plane. Louise Z. Brooks
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