..but it sounds like Buddy is opting for fighting >cubism's fragmentation with simply presenting things in a way a more >straightforward and less fancy than Literary cubism may require... >will > In that mode, do you think Buddy succeeded? "I want to describe his face," Buddy would say (paraphrased), and then continue for fifty pages on whichever tangent he didn't feel like quitting. Stream of Consciousness is by nature antonymous with the Cubist fragmentation, but what we end up with in S:AI is a terribly fragmented view of a huge human being. The best Buddy could do was give us as many views of Seymour as possible in order to illuminate in infinitely complex subject. Isn't that the same as Cubism? When we're finished, don't we have a Cubist picture of Seymour? Brendan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com