GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

Michael Perez studiovheissu at yahoo.com
Sun Dec 5 07:04:58 CST 1999


rj wrote:
"Yes, these are questions the text leaves the reader with. Unanswered
questions. Or, relativism and ambiguity accrue because there are too
many answers, too many possibilities, crowding in on top of one
another, each one depending on context and perspective for its local
'truth.' [snip]'Good' and 'evil'? Yeah, right. Not in this Text, fella.
The only moral compass here is the one in the reader's hand: 'There is
time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to
reach between your own cold legs . . . '"

Exactly.  This is sort of what I getting at since the beginning of this
wonderfully mutant thread.


Michael
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