COL49 - Chap 1: Roseman

[Robin Landseadel]

On May 6, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

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> On Wed, 6 May 2009 kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>> Kind of oedipal:  Roseman wants to destroy the father Perry to win  
>> the
>> affection of mom (public adulation).  Makes me think of some other
>> quasi-oedipal (metaphorically, anyway) stuff in the book.
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> Will try to join the read more properly tomorrow (the afterwake got
> quite micksploited in the Jamesonese sense) but I think I sense one,
> more literally Oedipal bit I don't recall noticing before.
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> "Roseman tried to play footsie with her under the table. She was
> wearing boots, and couldn't feel much of anything."
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> "Oedipus" means "swollen feet" in Greek.
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> Oh well.
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>
> Heikki

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