GRGR(5) Enzian

[Jeremy Osner]

rj:

> "The Herero boy, long-tormented by missionaries into a fear of Christian
> sins, jackal-ghosts, potent European strand-wolves, pursuing him,
> seeking to feed on his soul, the precious worm that lived along his
> backbone, now tried to cage his old gods, snare them in words, give them
> away, savage, paralyzed, to this scholarly white who seemed so in love
> with language." (99.26)
>
A well timed post! I was reading that very passage this morning and thinking
about perhaps writing in with some questions -- your post inspires me to go
for it.

I wondered about the passage: Do you reckon "Christian
sins, jackal-ghosts, potent European strand-wolves, pursuing him,
seeking to feed on his soul, the precious worm that lived along his
backbone" is a list of things that Enzian fears? And, is this sentence
Enzian's version or Weissman's? Or some third party's?

J