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

[David Morris]

Gotta hand it to you, Terrance.  You're nothing if not insistent.

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"
> > david sed:
> > >I contend, as have a few others on the list, that Enzian loved 
>Weissman,
> > >and
> > >vice versa.  That's only hard to accept if one's agenda is to prove
> > >Weissman's evil nature.  Each man remembers the other in loving terms, 
>no?
>
>It's not a matter of acceptance is it? Isn't this a little
>privileged? I can't accept it and I can prove Blicero's
>evil--it's in the text. Evil, that he is what the narrator
>calls him among other names. Blicero is very much like
>Milton's Satan. Very attractive, very attractive, but is he
>capable of love? Is he capable of love? The narrator says,
>NO! This is not my opinion, it's not my refusal to accept
>this kind of "Love" or to define my type of love. The
>narrator says what love is and what it requires and who is
>capable and who is not. It's in the book. What is wrong with
>Blicero's reading of Rilke?

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