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- From: yousten@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Ken Yousten)
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- Subject: Re: re. Citizen Kane Question
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 17:09:35 GMT
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- In article <Bzr8FL.3to@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell) writes:
- >ability to strike out at the world. He isn't able to control anyone anymore
- >and he rembers back to when he was a child and he manipulated his parents.
-
- My memories are not perfect, but as I remember it, Agnes Moorhead pretty
- much ruled everything and I didn't get the feeling that he manipulated
- her at all.
-
- >This was also the time he first gained his wealth and did anything he
- >wanted.
-
- I don't think he wanted all that wealth all that much (he was a kid),
- since it meant leaving his home and family and going to the city to be
- raised by bankers.
-
- Are you thinking of when he first went into business? (What was that
- great quote- something like "Yes I lost a million dollars this year.
- And I expect to lose a million more next year. At this rate, I'll have
- to sell this paper ... in 60 years.") I am thinking of when he was a
- little kid, playing in the snow, before he got money and it took over
- his life.
-
- >Maybe he was wishing that he could start over again and not turn out
- >to be the "control" addict that he had become?
-
- Was he maybe yearning for a time when money was not important and he
- had no responsibily? That seems more reasonable to me.
- --
- Ken Yousten "The Wendigo, the Wendigo!
- Blacksburg, VA I saw it just a friend ago"
- kay@radford.vak12ed.edu -from Ogden Nash, "The Wendigo"
-