Woge, Thanatoids and Spirits

[Matt Treyvaud]

When I said:

> >The children, especially Prairie, have no dark histories apart from a few
> >full nappies. Nevertheless, they still have to face the results of what
> >their -parents- did; and pardon me for spraying schmaltz on y'all, but I
> >think the final Brock-Prairie scene is authorially supportive of the idea
> >that they can be victorious over The Past.

Meg replied:

> I am reminded of a line from _Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil_:  In
> order to understand the living, you must commune with the dead.  For all
> intents, as far as Prairie and Zoyd, and DL, are concerned, Frenesi and
> Brock have been "dead" all these years.  Perhaps by "communing" with them, Z
> and Prairie have come to an understanding of themselves by book's end.  

Ah, indeed. If I may push Kingston again, _The Woman Warrior_ did a lot of
fooling with the idea that you can't get rid of ghosts, you have to just
learn to accept them.

And she also said:

> And maybe it's not that they are victorious over the Past, but have
> reached a place where they can at least live with it. 

I'd go along with that, it's basically a more mature and less
confrontational way of saying what I was trying to. Who was it who said
(more elegantly) that transcendance is really just acclimitisation?

Matt

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