Re: If I were a Carpenter...

Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:41:37 -0800 (PST)

>   I've always thought that Roof Beam Carpenters was one of the stories 
where
>Seymour is most present, given Buddy's reading of the journal. 

That's what I meant when I said "Loudly Absent".  Seymour doesn't ever 
actually appear in the story as an active character, but he is very 
present throughout the piece--in his own form as well as, eh?, the Short 
Man.

Brendan

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