Posted by Ritch on May 22, 2002, at 21:23:33
In reply to Re: Owen Meany Discussion-finished book, posted by susan C on May 22, 2002, at 17:47:04
> Hi,
> Hey Rich, do you see how appropriate the comments you made above were about the book? I had finished it then, and thought your summary was so clear. And now, your connection to the cross. You are really good. I hadn't seen that. I am not a symbol reader in books. Things are pretty literal for me. For me, the best part, or one of the best parts of the whole book, was the VW on the stage scene, with the Dean careening down the steps, oh my oh my. That will stick with me for a long time.
>
> Mouse holding on to her hat.
Hi Susan,Don't tell me too much about how this thing goes :)! I read to the part where it shifts gears to 1987 and starts talking about all of this political stuff and it dissapointed me, because I really enjoyed all of the roughhousing with the cousins (so I stopped there). I am sure it will straighten out and get good and smooth again. I will pick up on it tomorrow (after I trim my hedges). Oh, I am a symbol freak, unfortunately it often gets in the way of the details of the story (history, names, dialogue, etc.). I just got back from Oklahoma and I saw five dead armadillo road-kill carcasses in this one stretch of highway. They were all on the south-side, so they all must have been migrating north. Phil's vision of the big northward armadillo migration might be quite accurate.
Mitch
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