Profane

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, RICHARD ROMEO wrote:

> Just what is it about Profane that attracts the ladies--Paola, Rachel, 
> etc.  Is it simple pity, he's non-threatening, wha...I'd like some of 
> what he's drinking.  Seriously, is Profane the ultimate in dum lugs we 
> care about because we know for all our smarts these "Profanes"  will 
> ceaselessly blunder into the traps put out there by an ever so fluently 
> careless reality?  and do we recognize so well that dum lug in ourselves.
> 
> Another thought:  do we sympathize more for Stencil for the things he 
> shouldn't know or Profane who will never know'em but will trip over them 
> just the same?

Isn't Profane a half alter ego (or whatever you call it) for the author.
Not the part that writes like an angel (nothing profane about angels),
but the shy awkward kid who joined the navy to see the world. Such an 
identificaton might explain Benny's success with dames--pure
wish fulfillment, spun out of the whole cloth.

Seems to me Stencil needs our sympathy more than the charmed Benny.

Rather be born lucky than smart.

Just guessing.
					
				P.