GRGR(4)79.4 Vanya

[Lars Frehse]

Hi everybody!

" A stronger stimulus no longer gets a stronger response"

To me this looks like Vanya´s cortex and the brain of everybody else
went through the same numbing process. In the winter of ´44 it was
already obvious that the axis was defeated and everything would be over
pretty soon, yet everyone goes on as if Britain would still be under
siege. Pointsman goes on manipulating dogs, other mammals and
octopusses, Jessica and Mexico are still deperately clinging to each
other, and so on.
Except for Pointsman wondering where to get his funds, once V-day has
arrived, nobody seems to care about victory approaching full throttle.
Anyway, Vanya´s "equivalent phase" describes pretty well the condition
that those numbing years must have had on those who went through it. It
would at least be an explanation, why the Allies didn´t treat the
Germans accordingly to their behavior, once unconditionell surrender was
achieved. For the Marshall-Plan looks like a pretty weak response to the
stimulus of large-scale-genocide, I think. Or was that already the
"paradox phase"?

Wondering,
                Lars