RE: a little JDS

'being here is glorious' was too much for Seymour. He is the reservoir or
cistern of wisdom for the rest of the Glasses. Of course I am not
restricting these conclusions to Bananafish. I am only an agent of
provocation but Buddy's insight may need glasses. Seymour knows but I
suspect he thinks he knows too much. 'glorious' is fenced off in a garden
and the garden is forbidden to him. All those squiggles on the beaver board
are like concertina wire on the garden wall. The tragedy is that hope is
there but he wasn't where hope is. The apples remained ungathered because
maybe he couldn't stoop to pick them up. He became the pernicious
observer. The little doll on the plane could see more hope. Maybe that old
Zen saying applies here, he was a full tea cup. Rilke broke the camels
back. That German pistol was some sort of blackboard eraser. That little
reset button old computers came with. The hole was full, or so he thought.
He was an 18 wheeler stuck in a residential dead end, no room to turn and no
stomach for reverse on the shifter. So he jumped the curb, or try to hit a
tree or whatever.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Johnson [mailto:haikux2@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 10:33 AM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: 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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