context?

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

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".
> 
> The Hereros were sold on suicide *before* "the extermination the Germans
> began in 1904".(317.6-10) 

Before? 

Indeed, young Enzian's "gods had gone away
> themselves". 

By themselves? 

Oh surely you are just rogering us, jackson.