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Re: A good ol' fashioned debate! Or three?



At 16:53 -0800 1/28/1999, The Who Mailing List Digest wrote:
>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:37:52 -0500
>From: "Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>
>
>There's plenty of violence afterwards, from Ernie's rape to Kevin's
>beating, and let's not forget the followers at the end...who, depending on
>how you read it, either kill Tommy or make him physically deaf dumb and
>blind (my own belief).

Wow...I too have been listening to Tommy for the better part of three
decades and interpret the end as saying that Tommy, hurt by the rejection
of the would-be followers he tried to help, recoils back into himself ("See
me feel me..."), but does not revert to deaf/dumb/blindness, instead
carrying on with normal senses but realizing that he himself is all he has
to rely on ("Listening to You" being addressed to himself).

>Many, MANY
>people have been successful drug-users for decades, contributing to society
>and having happy and useful lives. They are unable to publically admit
>this, given the current anti-intellectual climate

This reminds me of nothing so much as staens tht used to be made about
homosexuals in societies where homosexuality was "the love which dares not
speak its name".  Homosexuals came out of the closet...how long until drug
users can do the same?  Perhaps with that famous cocaine user, Sherlock
Holmes, as their poster boy?

Alan
Be sure to read _McKendree: A Burning Novel of Murder and Revenge_
by Douglas Hirt, ISBN 0-8439-4184-7  (available at www.amazon.com)