Subject: Re: feet?(Seymour Glass as Tom Green?)
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 02:19:18 GMT
lol, sorry just visualizing that made me laugh:)
--- Scout Thompson <one38@one38.org> wrote:
> I'm curious to know if any of you ever understood
> the "goddamned feet" thing. I
> remember I read the story because of a friend and I
> asked him and he was just
> like "Cuz she was a phoney" and I was like "Okay,
> sure." I guess I was just kind
> of pacified because I, like you, believed seymour
> was "picking a fight." Like he
> was just pretending she was staring at her feet just
> to give her a hard time, to
> goof around, play with her....Seymour Glass as Tom
> Green, you know?
>
> It could be mere irreverence. I mean it could be.
> I've got to thinking though
> about the "god damned tattoo" which he didn't have
> (he didn't want people
> looking at his _body_ and so he wore a robe to the
> beach) and then on his way
> back- he's still wearing a bathrobe, remember, this
> is something I tend to
> forget, and she looks at his feet- not covered by
> the bathrobe, the only part
> besides his face- and so maybe a. she DID look at
> his feet and he didn;t want to
> be seen, or B. She didn't and Seymour was just hyper
> aware of his body (he
> kisses sybils toes, mind you)
>
> I think B's a likelihood. I mean there have been
> times of complete happiness
> where I could feel my body literally stretch to feel
> like it would fill a whole
> room, like not my body, really, but like, the
> awareness of my body? Like I was
> literally connected, like the lampshade was my arm.
> I suppose its possible that, if you stayed in a
> maintained state of that state
> (what a terrible sentence!) you would probably see
> your body as useless and
> limiting......
>
> The other thing is that the Bananafish is Seymour
> himself, I think. "They're
> very ordinary looking fish coming in"...it
> says...but then they find this hole
> and eat as many bananas a day- bananas being beauty,
> you know, or whatever. And
> then they can't get out of the hole. They can't be
> ordinary fish- and so then,
> you know, we have Seymour very upset not that she
> was looking at his feet but
> that he has "two normal feet and i can't see the
> slightest god damned reason why
> anybody should stare at them." NORMAL FEET, you
> know? He wasn't afraid of being
> seen- he was aware that he wouldn't ever be capable
> of swimming out of the
> banana hole, and there is Muriel, and his life, you
> know (we know from later
> stories that he was terrified of the marriage,
> didn;t show up and they eloped
> despite having a cathedral full of relatives and all
> that jazz) then here they
> are immediately afterward where seymour is supposed
> to start his normal
> life.....I'm pretty sure he realises he can't do it.
> He can't get out of the
> bananahole and so, being a steady believer, we
> presume, in reincarnation, he
> offs himself.
>
> I mean when one has swum into a hole and can't get
> out, what do you do? You
> watch what happens outside the hole- and then you
> die.
>
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