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

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Richard
> But Blicero does win out in the end, his sacrifice of 
> another of his loves, Gottfried to the Rocket. Enzian almost looks up to 
> Weissman as a father seems to me. 

As a father *and* a lover *and* a messiah. Gottfried willingly submits
too. Not once, and the narrative is privy to Gottfried's consciousness
on several occasions, does Gottfried express any hesitation to accept
whatever Blicero has to offer. (102-3, 723-724)

Neither does Enzian, nor, in retrospect, does he recant his association
with the man.

Enzian, at least, and Gottfried too, I think, are under no delusions
about what Blicero stands for, what he is teaching. In each case the
sexual submission to him, as depicted in the text, is a desired one on
the boy's part.

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