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

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

jporter wrote:
> 
> Paul, yesterday:
> 
> >Gosh, I've got to demur a teensy bit here. Pederasty and messing up
> >demented old men may WELL be evil in the abstract. In the novel these
> >things constitute mere play of the imagination. I know Pudding dies (too
> >much escherichia coli (sp)) and who knows what happens to the girls, but
> >eeevil??? No way, IMHO.
> 
> I agree.

What are you both saying here? In the novel these constitute
mere play of the imagination. I might agree with this
statement, but I don't know what you are talking about. It's
not evil because it's in a novel? OK, I agree with that, if
that's it? 

> 
> >Here's a question for you casuists out there. What is the significance of
> >Slothrop NOT having sex with the girl with the doll with the lapislazuli
> >eyes? (hope this isn't too gross)
> 
> Hmmm. Tough one. That would be kind of like culture "screwing"
> civilization, just at the dawn of civilization. I mean, in their stately
> dance sometimes they overlap, but as Slothrop discovered, neither can claim
> the lead.
> 
> Besides she's just a figure; the "tiny frost flower" of her hand, fragile,
> like cuneiform.
> 
> jody