Yes. Thankyou, *thankyou* Jim. I was finding it oddly self-defeating to wonder why a story built on the premise of mystery was so mysterious (: > I think your point that we NEED the rest of the canon to understand the > story is the best point of all. And that we need the story to understand > the rest of the canon as well. I think we're left in the same position > as the rest of the Glass family by Seymour's suicide--baffled, and trying > to work it out for the rest of our lives. > > I think that's the point. > > Jim Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest