Re: Buddy's Four Virgils
Sundeep Dougal (holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:13:16 +0530
> Following this lead, I have been dipping into Kafka's Diaries. I
would like
> to post a couple--in beaverboard style--and be off.
The lead on Kierkegaard is liable to be equally fruitful, what
with shared childhood affluence, interest in theology, salvation of
the souls and such, reclusivity in later years, fighting the sheer
'negative conspiracy' of cruel satirization and so on.
ANd then there is the shared (at least with Seymour) belief about
considering oneself erotic to an extraordinary degree...his sudden
awakeness to God's nearness in an experience of 'indescribable joy'
and so forth. So there, if you want, is another inspiration for St.
Suicidee, as I have postulated before.
And there might be hope too, then, that there would be published
pseudonymous writings. (Among some of Kierkegaard's pen-names: Victor
Eremetus, Johannes de Santio, Constantin Constantius, Johann Climacus,
and my very favourite, Anti-Climacus.
Sonny
("My _real_ name is Major George Fielding Anti-Climax" - Buddy Glass)