Subject: RE: Order Me Around
From: Mattis Fishman (mattis@argoscomp.com)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 01:03:46 EST
Tim wrote, and so nicely that I quote it in full:
>I love "Seymour." It's like taking a bus trip with a slightly nutty
>driver who takes short cuts and not-so-short-cuts and who can't
>resist pointing out all the scenery. In that story, digression is
>the point. The entire story is a non-linear thing, a digression unto
>itself. I love the "I-don't-give-a-damn-what-you-think" sentences
>and paragraphs that snake from page to page. I love the way the
>storyteller himself (Buddy, I mean) can't decide what direction to
>take. If all roads lead to Rome, Buddy seems determined to take us
>along every one of them.
Even though I share some of Scottie's frustration with the overly
self-absorbed style, I have to admire your description of it.
allthebest,Mattis whose space bar is shot "Daddythatsthespacebar?It'sthebrake!"
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