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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