GRGR(16) - Kirghiz Light

[David Morris]

>From: rj 
>
>Dzaqyp is "Kirghiz" (342.25). He would know of it, I
assume. In fact,
>I'd say he shares the faith, or is an aqyn himself.
Dzaqyp attempts to
>communicate with Tchitcherine about important,
personal things,
through
>looks (341.15up).
[snip]
>Dzaqyp must realise here -- but cannot say -- what
will
>come. After this Dzaqyp will not speak again.
>
>So, it is Dzaqyp who is leading Tchitchy to the
Kirghiz Light, not
vice
>versa, and Dzaqyp is the one who "tends him, anxious
as child and
>doll"(359.15), when he is crippled by it. 

Tchitcherine will not listen to Dzaqyp's silent
messages.  He will not
be turned from his mission.  Galina and Luba, though,
have learned to
speak with Dzaqyp by silences.

Over and over in this section it is stated that
Tchitcherine will not
remember_anthing_ about this land, its intensity,
purity, and beauty. 
Neither will he remember Galina.  He will see the
Kirghiz Light, but he will not find his birth.  "He is
no aqyn, and his heart was never ready," just as he
was not ready to receive Dzaqyp's silences.  But why
does he forget everything?  Is it his single-minded
mission which blinds his perception and thus memory of
the great beauty here?  Was it all those opium trips? 
Or was it the Light itself which blinded his memory,
took back the beauty he was not ready to see?

David Morris
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