Seymour/dying of light
George Ford (bf20455@binghamton.edu)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:50:20 -0400
>> i also think many people experience a "dying of the light" long before
>> they ever die by living a life of apathy, of being on autopilot and
>> accepting the status quo without ever wanting to "rock the boat". i wish
>> all people did live their lives in touch with that rage for life which
>> should be inside of all us.
We on the list have discussed Seymour's suicide many times, but perhaps we
could reinvigorate that discussion by looking at it in terms of this "dying
of the light" discussion. Seymour was obviously not apathetic to life, but
was he perhaps troubled by his life of marriage, which he found "too happy",
that perhaps that life offered only a kind of stagnancy, a beatified
normalcy that drowned his spiritual vigour for life.
Rereading what I have written, I'm not sure I agree with any of it, but I
suppose I'll post it anyway to see what you all think of it.
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George Ford
bf20455@binghamton.edu
"For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone
and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale."
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Crossing"
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