Subject: Re: Franny's "ego quote"
From: Benjamin Samuels (madhava@sprynet.com)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 13:54:51 EST
> Quick request, as I'm mired in the land of Salt and Mines: can someone
who
> has a handy copy of "Franny" send along the exact paragraph or two where
> she vents about the prevelance of "ego" all around?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> D.
Where's the land of Salt and Mines?
Here's one from p.28 from my 40th printing (white cover with 2 green
horizontal stripes along the bottom)
"I just quit, that's all," Franny said. "It started embarrassing me. I
began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac." She reflected. "I don't
know. It seemed like such poor taste, sort of, to want to act in the first
place. I mean all the *ego*. And I used to hate myself so, when I was in a
play, to be backstage after the play was over. All those egos running
around feeling terribly *char*itable [it's how it appears in my edition, the
"*char*" on one line with a hyphen and "itable" on the next. very possibly
a typo. -M.] and *warm*. Kissing everybody and wearing their makeup all
over the place, and then trying to be horribly natural and friendly when
your friends come backstage to see you. I just hated myself.... And the
worst part was I was usually sort of ashamed to be in the plays I was in.
Especially in summer stock." She looked at Lane. "And I had good parts,
so don't look at me that way. It wasn't that. It was just that I would
have been ashamed if, say, anybody I respected- my brothers, for example-
came and heard me deliver some of the *lines* I had to say. I used to write
certain people and tell them not to come." Sha reflected again. Except
Pegreen in 'Playbay,' last summer. I mean that could have been really nice,
only the goon that played the Playboy spoiled any fun it might have been.
He was so lyrical- God was he Lyrical!"
~~~~~snip~~~~~
(p.29)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"All I know is I'm losing my mind," Franny said. "I'm just sick of ego,
ego, ego. My own and everyone else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to
*get* somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody
interesting. It's disgusting- it *is*. I don't care what anybody says."
...
~~~~~~~~
Of course there are probably other paragraphs that fit the bill of Franny
complaing about ego but that seemed like a good shot.
Love,
Ben
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