Subject: Re: Honeymoon?
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 13:15:20 GMT
Scottie wrote:
>
> And you know what? Taking this my sixth? -
> seventh? - look at the story, I've finally decided it's
> a truly nasty, pretentious little piece of work.
>
> Seymour identifies the root of his discontent when he
> 'look[s] at the girl, aim[s] the pistol & fire[s] ...'
>
> Nothing to do with the higher spirituality. It's all
> Muriel's fault: this dishy, affectionate girl, who defends
> him from her parents (guilty of nothing more than
> worrying, quite justifiably, about their daughter's
> involvement with a glaring psychotic), who sticks up
> for him, accepts with good humour his verbal abuse,
> listens patiently to his undergraduate crap about Rilko
> Bilko, & puts up generally with his nonsense FOR AT
> LEAST FOUR YEARS when so many others would
> have long gone....
>
> No no, she ain't good enough for this disgruntled,
> precious, self-important, inadequate, paedophiliac
> prig with his wearisome claims to intellectual
> superiority.
>
> Good riddance.
In your eyes, can one separate the Seymour in APDFB from the Seymour
depicted in the other Glass stories? Or do you see the depiction of that
Seymour seamlessly leading to the Bananafish Seymour?
--Bruce
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