GRGR(6): End of the advent service

[David Morris]

Jeremy Osner:
>[snip] suddenly "back in the story", we read
>"But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked
>him up, held him a bit." I think "you" is Jessica,
>"him" is Roger.
>
>The point in time at which she wishes she'd held him
>a bit is the moment when she was herself, not "who
>the Caesars say" she is (136). But she is unable to
>move completely across that synapse -- she did *not*
>pick him up, hold him a bit. And so, the moment unseized,
>she must retreat into her "war-identity."

Yes yes yes.  Roger needs her so much, and had her response been to open up,
she might have been saved.  Your reading fits very well.  The next episode
of "Roger and Jessica" will only reinforce this.

Good job from someone "having trouble with episode 16."

David