what i really, really want...
helena kim (helenak@geocities.com)
Mon, 11 May 1998 02:15:50 +0100
there are a several moments in catcher when holden expresses his desires for
the future. the ones that stick out in my memory are, firstly, the part about
the little kids and the cliff, and secondly, when he says he wants to move to
the middle of a forest with a deafmute girl.
two passages that i've read recently have stuck out in *my* mind as what *i'd*
like to be 'when i grow up'.
firstly, the part in harper lee's 'to kill a mocking bird', when dill talks
about being a new kind of clown. one who 'stands in the middle of the ring and
laughs at all the folks'.
secondly, a passage i read in a magazine, describing a protest for housing for
immigrants to france.
'a briefly tense and interesting but eventually calm and tedious stand-off
ensues. one luxuriantly bearded protester, dressed as a shepherd and carrying a
toy donkey over one shoulder, waltzes along the french police blockade with a
ghetto blaster playing 'if i was a rich man'. the police ignore him. when i
speak to him, he ignores me. apparently he's an itinerant fruitcake who turns
up at these things.'
so the next time someone asks what i intend on doing with the rest of my life,
i'll tell them that i want to be an itinerant deafmute laughing clown who turns
up at civil rights protests on cliff tops.
just a thought.
:helena
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