Re: if he's out there
MEPIERCE (mepierce@sfasu.edu)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:22:16 -0600
Pierrot65@aol.com wrote:
>
> I love the part in Zooey (or is it Franny?) where Zooey is in the John or john
> and he calls his mom "Fatso." For some reason that slays me, it really does.
> But then my f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s aren't squared, maybe.
>
> rick
I love that part too! I think they are actually in the hall. He has
left the bathroom and is hurrying to dress when he collides with his
busy-body momma, and she begins to chastise the persperation on his
face: "You just had a bath. What have you been doing?"
and zooey says, "i'm late now, Fatty. C'mon. One side." and Bessie
follows him still nagging about the perspiration.
It's a great little passage because the reference to her rotund waist is
a term of endearment that could only be understood between the two of
them.
Good stuff-
--
M.E. Pierce
Dept. of English, SFASU
http://TITAN.SFASU.EDU/~f_pierceme/
"Are you a nobody too?" --The Belle of Amherst