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To: Rambi who wrote (412)	8/28/2001 1:06:53 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 466

I think X is right, that her control is her madness, though my feeling about it is that it's less bleak than that. This feels right to me: But more like the trapped animal chewing off his own leg to be free? An action that from the outside appears terrible and strange, but is actually a logical means of survival? Maybe 'logical' is putting it too strongly. Maybe it was the only way open to her. Or maybe it wasn't a choice but was still a rebirth, since it was the way in which she deciphered the meaning of the pattern in the sulphurous paper and tore her way out of it. And it seems that in the last line she is saying to women, "Sisters, you'll have to creep over him (the patriarchal male) every time!"

To: Rambi who wrote (412)	8/28/2001 2:18:41 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 466

Oh I am so sorry I've missed most of the discussion. Not only has SI been very hard for me to post on, it's been a crazy day. I've just returned from a two-hour schlep to pick up a daughter and haven't eaten lunch. I've read what you all have said though, and I agree with the idea of her madness as strength. Her madness was quite symbolic to me of her own desire to escape the stringent rules of behavior (ie. the horrifying and nonsensical patterns in the wallpaper) expected of her as a doting wife, even as a sick person. She found freedom in her madness as well.