Re: A pint of pus

--- Lucy Pearson <l_r_pearson@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> As I remember it, the pint of pus comment is buddy's
> decription of arriving on the plane to see Muriel
> after Seymour's death, He 'wept like a slob' for the
> entire flight, but just before getting off he
> overhears a women behind him saying 'and do you
> know, the next day they removed a pint of pus from
> that lovely young body of hers'. He gets off the
> plane grinning entirely inapproriately, given that
> he is meeting the grieving widow.
> What the signifies exactly, I don't know.

yes, lucy-ruth has it right. buddy then goes on to
say that he can't be constantly running back and forth
from hilarity to grief. the hilarity is hearing about
the pint of pus, the grief is knowing that a good poet
is dying down the road (from the girl).

i don't know what it means, but it always struck me as
somewhat misogynistic.

kim
 
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Received on Fri Mar 21 12:12:52 2003