RE: The Inverted Forest; walking on the ceiling

...i ACTUALLY believe that's salinger
speaking through buddy; that buddy's credo re the
death of the artist, whether the coroner pronounces it
by consumption, loneliness or suicide, the artist is
truly being done in by the blinding shapes and colors
of his own sacred human conscience; all this is an
attempt to outweigh critical interpretation of the
suicide, and the impression that since seymour
committed suicide he can't be all of these things
salinger respects.

kim

You are bringing your critical tool kit to the scene of the crime. Your
forensic deducings are what are at issue with what Jerome is saying.
Seymour's motivations are known in part to Buddy but Buddy is not Seymour
and, alas, only an observer like the rest of us. Yea, he had box seats but
so far the collage is all clippings from the same magazine. Maybe those
bunker files have tiles cut at a different quarry. Motivations for suicides
are usually related to a sense of 'loss of control' but with Seymour it can
be quite the opposite, too much control, all that fruity poundage he has
been putting on. The poets soul stuffed in manacles.

Daniel
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Received on Thu Mar 20 12:08:03 2003