TRTR - some obvious stuff, chs 1-3

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/2/2011 5:38 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> so the black dog is like the black dog in Faust
>
> and Wyatt says dog which is god backwards three times and voila, like
> Beetlejuice, Recktall Brown appears
>
> Wyatt is introverted and incommunicative as his dad ever was even
> though old Reverend Gwyon at least has the excuse of having lost his
> wife --
> Wyatt's Esther is alive and really trying to understand him, she seems
> like a nice person although there is that bit about her insatiability
> and the suicide psychiatrist, but she didn't seem any too stable to
> begin with, letting the patient get the upper hand like that
>
> Gosh, everybody drinks and smokes a lot...
Perhaps we should say "thank you for smoking."

Because smoking and drinking is a better way to portray the base and 
therefore authentic self than having people going around with a bottle 
of water and plugged into headphones.

In a world of fragmented consciousness, self destructive behavior is 
authentic behavior.

Artist (writers, musicians, etc.) tend to be self destructive, at least 
in their most productive years.  Fortunately many of then quit when the 
price gets too high.  They leave New York and buy castles in the 
Hollywood hills.

Wyatt is an artist.  He doesn't want to be "understood" least of all by 
Esther.

Imho, of course.  :-)

P


> Otto is like Wyatt, out of his touch with his father and goes away to
> come back; a comic recasting of the same character?
>