GRGR(3) 50.31 Love Pointsman Style
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mcmullenm at vcss.k12.ca.us
Tue Jun 8 12:23:01 CDT 1999
(50.31ff) 'You have waited. . . '
Before and after the two paragraphs that begin at 50.31, Pointsman is
referred to in third person. Is Ed the 'you' in these two paragraphs?
If so, who is the narrative voice? Is it the same voice switching
persons? Why the switch to 'you?' And that St. Veraicon's Bus Station
floor is a nice contrast to the True Image of our Lord and Saviour
embossed on a Calvarific towel. Just as His sweat became the Imago on
that towel, so the waste on that fake parquetry is the Word Become
Flesh. Inasmuch as you do it unto the least of these you do it unto Me.
Pointsman wants to fuck the least of these and stamp his imago on their
tabula rasa. Alongside the cold rationality of Pointsman we get his
domineering lust, the filth on the floor, spermy beds, gasworks, moldy
coffee grounds, cat shit, pitted pale sweaters...and then he/you get/s
an octopus/them. Makes perfect sense doesn't it? Dialectics at its/their
most maddening.
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