Elias Canett’s The Tear-warmer

Posted by Jan den Breejen (213.75.43.199) on July 20, 2002 at 02:06:50:

Elias Canett’s The Tear-warmer

Elias Canetti’s booklet called ‘The Earwithness’ is filled with 50 caricaturized (a bit surrealistic) character styles described in short pastiche texts. One of the types is called the Tear-Warmer. The tear-warmer goes to the movies every day. It doesn’t allways have to be something new, he is also drawn to old films, all that counts is that they fulfill their purpose and elicit tears galore from him. You sit in the darkness, unseen by others, and wait for fulfillment. The world is cold and heartless, and a man wouldn’t care to live without feeling the warm wetness on his cheeks. As soon as the tears begin to pour, you feel good…..the tearwarmer was not allways so well off, there were times when he was dependent on his own misfortune, and if it didn’t come and kept him waiting, he often felt as if he were about to freeze to death. He twisted about in life uncertainly, towards a loss, a hurt, an inconsolable grief. But people do not allways die when you want to be sad, most of them have their tenacious lives and they balk…

What is the likely type of the Tear -Warmer?

Jan

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