Re: Seymour's Suicide -- Bruce...

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 17:29:22 +0100 

    '...We're led outside and beyond the problem to an epiphany, 
    and then well past the epiphany to wholeness ...'

    In these parts, the word 'epiphany' is usually to be found 
    issuing from an orifice two or three inches above 
    a Roman collar.  But in America.  My goodness, 
    malaria joyceiensis seems to have swept through 
    the land like the HIV virus through subSaharan Africa.

    What CAN it all mean?  I've looked it up in all my references 
    & the explanations seem to vary widely  - from 
    the 'unveiling of the Godhead' to the 'sudden appreciation 
    of the whatness of things.'  It occurs six times in the above 
    paragraph.  If you perform a find/replace with any of 
    the accepted definitions you get a strange - &, to me, 
    still mystifying - result.

    Scottie B.