Mr.Millison: The Old Man and the Sea
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 25 14:03:53 CDT 2001
I think Mike's analysis is closer to the truth. If Doug's reliving the
past, it's surely a fictional past. Doug just loves all the attention
(sure, everyone does, but sometimes it's pathological), even if it's all
negative.
DM
"Simon Bryquer-RR":
>>Mr. Millison you see has become in age what he's probably always been --
>>an old man. An old man forever reaching back to the defining moments of
>>his youth, the Sixties and Vietnam. He's relived these moments ever since
>>in everything he's done and read, or rather read into.
MikeJ:
>>once again the attention-starved "doug" has succeeded
in inverting the focus of this list onto himself.
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