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< BACK TO Fresh Intelligence VT Shooter a Playwright? Brother?
He was just so quiet and kept to himself. Looking back, he fit the exact stereotype of what one would typically think of as a "school shooter"—a loner, obsessed with violence, and serious personal problems. Some of us in class tried to talk to him to be nice and get him out of his shell, but he refused talking to anyone. It was like he didn't want to be friends with anybody. In the opening scene of Mr. Brownstone, two characters, John and Jane, get into a casino using fake IDs and bitch about an old man, a teacher, who just won't leave them alone. "I'd like to kill him," John says. "I'll be damn [sic] if he doesn't die," Jane answers. Meanwhile, rumors have begun to bubble up that Seung-Hui had a sister, possibly named Sun-Kyung Cho, an '04 Princeton graduate. A contributor by that name wrote at least two stories for the Daily Princetonian, one on sweatshop labor. (The Princetonian could not confirm whether Sun-Kyung Cho was in fact Cho Seung-Hui's sister, and a staffer reached there said the paper was seeking the same answers.) Sun-Kyung also muses about her internship with the International Labor Office in Washington, D.C., and apparently volunteered in '04 for the Princeton Arts Alive program. your description of "richard mcbeef" is wrong. "mr. brownstone" had the characters of "john", "jane", and "joe" in the casino. Posted by: ladyli1 on April 17, 2007 11:25 PM Fixed 9:41 a.m., Weds, April 18th. Thanks. Posted by: Tgray on April 18, 2007 9:40 AM Yes, blame the work of fiction, despite there have been plenty of more disturbing works done by people who aren't mass-murders. The gun nuts are worried about the ramifications for their "freedoms" (forget about the freedoms infringed upon those who were shot), I'm worried about the thought police now coming for edgy and controversial things, whether in plays, movies, TV, whatever, afraid that those who write it are disturbed and those who will hear it will get "the wrong impression." I'm not saying that these are works of art at all, but when it the "line" going to be drawn that we all should have see and hear only happy things? Posted by: gaustinw on April 18, 2007 1:12 PM Yes, blame the work of fiction, despite there have been plenty of more disturbing works done by people who aren't mass-murders. The gun nuts are worried about the ramifications for their "freedoms" (forget about the freedoms infringed upon those who were shot), I'm worried about the thought police now coming for edgy and controversial things, whether in plays, movies, TV, whatever, afraid that those who write it are disturbed and those who will hear it will get "the wrong impression." I'm not saying that these are works of art at all, but when it the "line" going to be drawn that we all should have see and hear only happy things? Posted by: gaustinw on April 18, 2007 2:19 PM Advertisement |
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