Re: heart of semour's love4muriel
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Tue, 05 May 1998 22:49:49 -0400
> Psychic shock waves! Yes, I agree, though marriage as conscription while
> still enlisted may be too much! I wondered why Seymour felt the
> responsibility of Muriel's love as separate from the responsibility of
> loving everyone/thing else?
Perhaps -- just perhaps -- because it was a greater challenge than anything
he had encountered before. Loving "everything" (which is so abstract and
saintly) is a greater challenge than loving someone well, especially in so
odd a couple.
--tim