Coprophagy (is Re: GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[rj]

TF
> What is happening
> with Katje and Pudding?

OK, money where your mouth is. I think there is great ambiguity here.
Katje's constipation, her (perhaps moral) unease does not prevent her
from fulfilling her role. She is not a slave or prisoner forced into
such acts of degradation under threat of death or worse, but a paid
employee. She does her job.

Pudding, well, Pudding *wants* to suffer these bodily abuses and
depravities. He knows full well what's waiting for him, and he navigates
an elaborate obstacle course to get there. No-one is forcing him to go.
The putrid stench of Passchendaele is still in his nostrils, in his
soul; it is this conditioning which drives him on.

Pointy has set it up for his own mean ends, sure, but he does not compel
anyone to do anything. A scientist and employer, he has read his
subjects very well, and provides them with the necessary stimuli to
achieve the desired responses. He provides laxatives and Pentothal,
penicillin to combat the E.coli, thoughtfully so even. 

Despite the absolute psycho-physiological disgust which this scene
produces when read -- I retch every time, I swear -- I cannot fix "evil"
anywhere or to anyone in this sequence. In fact, a certain dignity seeps
through even in this vision of humanity at its most base.

best

ps "money where your mouth is" -- another shit-eating submission?