Re: page reference
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Sun, 08 Mar 1998 22:48:03 -0800 (PST)
..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
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