Re: Seymour's Death -- "Et tu, Muriel?"
Mattis Fishman (mattis@argos.argoscomp.com)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:01:10 -0500 (EST)
Helena K. quoted Pasha Paterson thusly:
> OK, OK, you're certainly just as entitled to your views as we are.
>
> BUT MURIEL NO WORSE THAN FRANNY? (A few moments elapse while paramedics
> restart my heart and lungs.) At least Franny is befuddled because she
> honestly cares about spiritualism, and is confused only because she has
> gathered too much information at one time! Muriel doesn't even TRY to
> think spiritually at all, and actually GIGGLES at being called a
> "Spiritual Tramp".
and then Helena added:
> that's what i like about her. she's not all hand-to-forehead and woeful. i
> think that that is what is so *great* about her. she's just a
> down-to-earth person, who doesn't try to fill her head with zen koans and
> dickinson poems. she just *is*.
> ... and much more interesting stuff
Helena,
What a nice surprise, after having read Pasha's post to have found
my reply already typed up and signed with your welcome name.
I wonder, though, if we haven't borrowed our own impression (very well,
I should speak only for myself) from Seymour's diary entries in
Raise High The Roofbeams Carpenters. After all, Seymour was dismayed at
having been responsible for Muriel's reluctance to use the word "cute".
all the best,
Mattis