Subject: Pete & Pete, Angela, and the Hooker
From: Michael Zabel (MPZABEL@holycross.edu)
Date: Fri May 09 1997 - 18:07:52 GMT
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 opi
nion. 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 wha
t 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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