Re: Seymour, Muriel, & spending a day of bad weather with Buddy -Reply
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:48:45 -0500
> Tim, I didn't know you could read RHTRC anyother way except straight through.
You've never seen one of my days in action, where it seems to be 90%
interruptions! 8-)
> I have always been very intrigued by Charlotte. It seems as if she had a
> very pivitol role in Buddy and Seymour's adolescent yet the character never
> resurfaces later on. I have made an effort to look for her in nine stories,
> but to no avail. Maybe she exists in all those manuscripts sitting in the
> house in New England waiting for....what?
The only place I recall is an oblique reference toward the end of
"Seymour: An Introduction," when Buddy talks about a girl in his childhood,
known as "Charlotte the Harlot" -- again, a suggestive and intriguing
reference.
--tim