RE: a little JDS

daniel, i don't exactly understand what is meant by
rilke kicking out the leg of seymour's apple bin.
that rilke , or seymour's engagement with r.'s work,
contributed to seymour committing suicide? (that r.
was on s.'s mind because of the question to muriel?)

please amplify, and then i perhaps can dither on about
rilke and/or seymour....

kim

--- Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE
<daniel.yocum@Peterson.af.mil> wrote:
> Our posts intersect and we stand at the crossroads,
> maybe we can do some
> soul business. The mystsic Rilke (that German Poet
> more precisly) kicked
> the leg out from Seymour's apple bin and apples fell
> every which way. Even
> Seymour's 'extrodinaireness' didn't equip him with
> picking them all back up
> but he couldn't just stand there and watch them all
> roll away either. Buddy
> on the other hand leaves a trail of lost apples
> everywhere he goes.
> Hopefully none of the rest of the Glasses will slip
> on the peels. Kafka on
> the other hand reveled in scattered apples and
> particularly bruised
> scattered apples with worms. That last one was for
> you John O.
> Daniel
>
> > Only after a good dose of Rilke.
>
>
> rilke, in the 'elegies', moved from despair to
> affirmation. from a desire to emulate the
> consciousness of the angels, to an embrace of
> earthly
> life. (the crowning elegies are 7 & 9.)
>
> and the post-elegy 'sonnets to orpheus' are even
> more
> overtly affirming of life and a natural death.
> suicide was not a rilkean solution. see the second
> requiem to w.v.k. (not the 'requiem to a friend').
>
> 'being here is glorious.'
>
> kim
>
>
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