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Rod Lobaugh (ral@xc.org)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 19:55:10 +0200
>
> Thank God! I thought this was an EXCELLENT story too and I always wondered
> why no one discussed it!
>
No enough people read it. But they should. They should be willing
to swim shark infested waters for miles and miles, or at least face a
nun with an attitude to get ahold of a copy of this story and read it
through immediately. Or at least that's the opinion from where I'm
sitting (and a humble little seat it is)
> So, Rod, what do you think? Was he just trying to get back from the good
> life to where he once belonged? *grin*
>
Sort of but no. My personal belief is that the guy was emotionally
dependant on the verbal abuse of a woman. It's funny I can relate a
bit. I had a relationship with an older woman that was like this.
She treated me like shit cooked on an open barbeque and I kept going
back. It was by the grace of God I got out of that. That lady was
screwy shit all the way. A really messed up woman like Croft.
But I think it's the dependancy. He didn't know how to cope without
someone telling him what to do and think. I wasn't sure if "The
Brain" he mentions was Bunny or the alcohol at first, but I really
think it was Bunny now. I basically think the "good life" for him as
a professor at Columbus was actually a kind of private hell. He
could not, and did not know how to adjust to what we might call
"normal"
But hey, while I'm at it, what was the significance of the coat
Corinne found in Ray's closet? What did I miss their? Maybe I
should just go read that again to see?
Rod