Re: Parodies and Writers (response to S:aI page 75/6)
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:34:16 -0400 (EDT)
Department of Heavy Confessions:
It took me many years to confess this particular paranoia to a very good
friend, who responded by confessing that he'd always secretly harboured the
same paranoia.... For most of my life, I've believed that I'm seriously
mentally-challenged, and that the entire world is engaged in a elaborate
conspiracy to make me believe that I'm perfectly normal. You have to
understand that this means that all of YOU are also thereby involved in the
plot. It takes an awful lot of ingenuity, all over the world, and in some
pretty unexpected places, to maintain the ruse....
Seymour truly had achieved (definitely NOT the proper verb) satori....
>That is from Seymour in "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," bottom of
>page 75 & top of page 76 (Bantam paperback edition).
> Please do yourself a HUGE favor and read the entire passage that
>comes just before this. It is, by far, the most beautiful thing we have ever
>read. It has to do with scars on hands from touching certain people. (:
>You'll thank us.
>
>Mirjam and Rick
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