Message for Heikki and Al
Richard Romeo
richardromeo at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 8 15:01:08 CST 1999
Hi Mr. R--
As I'm reading GR once more, I'd wondered if you'd send me a copy of
that paper you were writing on ghosts and GR--seeing as I've been
reading lots of ghost stories lately and am sensitized for my GR
reading, I'd be very interested in your perceptions.
I should mention to everyone that on this, my 4th go around, it is
unbelievably my fourth different take on the novel. Whereas the last
reading I was scared, this time I've come to appreciate the mirroring of
thoughts, events, perceptions, the characters and narrators and the
reader have, like a "white washed diamond in a river of sin" to quote a
Mr. Young. Of course, one will never be able to disentangle all these
threads. We don't have hands of steel to turn coal into diamonds--only
Mr. P can do that. Unlike, Superman, however, only Mr. P can turn
diamonds back into coal. Maybe that image of the crystal palace crashing
down is a great metaphor for the whole ball of wax (wing--hehe)
Words reshape us. There's something comforting about never getting to
the end of something.
Rich Romeo
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