GRGR(3) 50.31 Love Pointsman Style

[rj]

> The "you" isn't the same "you" as in "You never thought they would save YOU," is it?
>                                                              P.

"Underfoot crunches the oldest of city dirt, last crystallizations of
all the city hade denied, threatened, lied to its children. Each has
been hearing a voice ... 'You didn't really believe you'd be saved ...'
" (4.22)

"You have waited into these places into the early mornings ... You know
where these children have run away from, and that, in this city there is
no one to meet them. You impress them with your gentleness ... " (50.32)

Sounds like the same "city" and the same "children" to me. Different
"you" perhaps, different to the extent that Pirate and Pointsman
identify, or individuate, themselves in the scheme of things, neither of
them yet recognising that they (and we) are all doomed to our mortal
consciousness and our consciousness of mortality regardless of our
levels of diligence, loyalty, venality, upward mobility, Machiavellian
scheming et. al. Neither delusions of paranoia nor of control will ever
be enough to transcend.

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