More feelings

[Henry Musikar]

Your post made me think of GR vis-a-vis anger (Dole is such an angry 
old man). The usual complaint by a P-Character is that 
"They are so uterly devoid of feelings." 
There is cap L Love "and I know there is a coming together." 
But, aside from Slothrop's upset with Tantivy's, shall we call it 
removal (in what I consider to be a pivotal scene), 
no sadness either, to speak of, on the part of the characters. 
It isn't until near the end of GR that Roger gets angry, 
"pointlessly" gestures, and subsequently finds and joins "we."


We, the narrator and readers, are the emotional ones.

On 18 Oct 96 at 9:30, Brett Coley wrote:

> I can see it.  Maybe Clinton could too, after all, how could you not
> inhale?  Seriously now.  What about that Bob Dole?  Do you think he
> might be OK if he drank about a fifth of scotch?  He almost got a
> little surreal during the debates the other night, he would be
> answering some question, then he would wander off on some comment
> about the President signing some bill after midnight or something,
> but then he would remember where he was and get back on the
> script...  I kept flashing to Major Pudding for some reason when
> that would happen, all that WWII flashback stuff Bob Dole was doing,
> I suppose.
> 
> Bill, of course, never departed from the script.  Sorry for the
> political digression.  We now return you to your regulary scheduled
> e-mail.
> 
> Later,
> Brett
> 
> 

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