Subject: Re: Pete & Pete, Angela, and the Hooker
Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU
Date: Fri May 09 1997 - 22:46:42 GMT
i missed the original post somehow, but i, too, couldn't agree more. ditto for
the reply message. i worded my thoughts entirely wrong and the bananafish named
angela got them entirely right.--matt
On Fri, 09 May 1997 18:07:52 -0400 bananafish@cassatt.Mass-USR.COM wrote:
>The ADventures of Pete amd Pete is a fantastic show!
>
>
>A banafish named Angela said this about the Holden/innocence debate: "Where
Holden was concerned, I don't think that he refused sex because that
>would destroy his innocence. I think he rejected sex _because_ he was
>innocent."
>
>
>I couldn't agree more with that more . . . As much as I would love to give
Holden credit for consciously rejecting what he percieved as a corruption of the
soul, I can't. The intelligence and insight that J.D. gave Holden isn't wisdom,
at least in my opinion. Wisdom, to me, implies an understanding through
personal experience of the workings of the world, which Holden does not have.
Rather, Holden's mind is wonderfully reflexive - he cannot do what he doesn't
believe in, he does not pretend to like what he does not like . . . he is an
entirely natural and honest character. Holden is innocent, in that he does not,
and in fact is unable to, conform to conventions of any sort. Innocence in a
sense truer than the connotations of the word today - a purity of the mind and
soul.
>By his very nature, Holden could no sooner have sex with that prostitute than
John Grisham write the sequel to CITR.
>
>
>I apologize for my disjointed ramblings here. I'm in a bit of a hurry, and
been forced to utterly disregard coherence.
>
>
>My apologies. :)
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