Re: a little JDS

Nice try, Hester. Seems like we did have an extended JDS discussion
right before Tina joined the list, and of course that was pooh-poohed too.

But I think you're on to something about Seymour. It's not that he was
happy or that he was sad, but that he was both, and because of that even
his unhappiness was unbearable. It's almost like he didn't feel he had
an excuse to be happy, or that it wasn't completely right to be happy,
or even just that whatever he was feeling, perhaps he felt it a bit too
much.

Jim

Hester wrote:

>ok, here's something about JDS...
>i recently wrote a paper on how so many critics think that the Seymour
>of RHTRBC is unbelievably happy, and therefore markedly and inexplicably
>different from the depressed Seymour who commits suicide in Bananafish.
>i basically drilled the critics for their ignorance. i found the
>Seymour of RHTRBC, particularly through his journals, to be incredibly
>depressed, lonely, sad, desperate.
>what do you guys think?
>
>
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