Hello All,
--- Ropy@aol.com wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that if you asked a hundred people on the
> street if they "fit
> in," you'd hear a hundred NO's. It's been my experience
> that homecoming
> queens will go on for hours about how unpopular they were
> in high school.
> Everybody is his/her own odd one out.
>
> But I'm talking about America.
>
> Ropy@aol.com
In ZAMM and Lila P portrays himself as the social outsider
verging on misanthropism. As the Deweiss's get-together
he's off intellectualizing about barbeque assembly and
Japanese bicycles. There are few social moments between he
and Chris on the road: no bedtime ghost stories, rather a
line by line analysis of Thoreau's Walden Pond. In Lila he
openly regrets his inability to engage in small talk with
both the indians and Lila, accepting Dusenberry's assertion
that such an approach is a way into a better understanding
of their respective values: it's the peyote and beer that
help to 'shut down' his intellect. So then what connects P
to the homecoming queen? Celebrity, perhaps?
Mark
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