LPPM MMV "Siegel"
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 11 13:18:15 CDT 2004
>
> Does he call this character "Jules?" If not then you are stating a
> half-truth (and one with no point behind it). I don't think there's any
> mention of this character's first name except that HIS roomate starts
> calling him "Stephen" for his Jesuit nature, an OBVIOUS reference to Joyce's
> Ulysses. The point is clearly what Terrance has already stated: Seigel is
> half and half Jewish-Catholic, just like Profane later to come. In fact,
> this whole story is a (very lame) precusor of "V."
His first name is Cleanth, a Stoic's name. Not sure what that tells us.
Could be P took the name from one of his english books (Cleanth Brooks,
famous New Critic) and married it to Siegel, the boy across the hall in
1954.
What do I know,
Tex
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