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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