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

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

If I'm going to money where my mouth is, I'm going to take
it real slow and methodical if you don't mind.  

rj wrote:
> 
> 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.

OK Katje first. Quite right. She knows just what she is
doing. Why does she do it?

> 
> 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?