GRGR(13) - The Repressed (2)

[David Morris]

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(268.30)  The first night he was afraid to fall asleep, afraid of a visit 
from Jamf, whose German-scientist mind would be battered by Death to only 
the most brute reflexes, no way to appeal to the dumb and grinning evil of 
the shell that was left... voices twittering with moonlight around his image 
as step by step he, It, the Repressed, approaches.... _waitaminute_ up out 
of sleep, face naked, turning to the foreign gravestones, _the what?  What 
was it?_... back again, almost to it, up again... up, and back, that way 
most of the early night.
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The movement here is "up" and "back."  Direction and Time.  Approach is 
"back."  Retreat is "up."  The approach to the Repressed is "down" and 
back."  Retreat is "up" and "forward."

"Down" in the text is usually related to the deep, as in the Sea (the depths 
of the Unconscious).  "Back" in time is that common theme "Reversal."  These 
places are Universal.  Slothrop's Repressed may be that of the [not Borg] 
Collective.  Of course that reading should not let the reader off the hook.  
No Easy-Boy reading yet.

Slothrop's repression is in the Forbidden Wing.  Slothrop's dance with the 
Repressed maybe seen as high sanity, even heroicism, because he actively 
pursues his repressed.  He approaches it in his dreams and in his conscious 
life.  If it controls him, it is not possession.  It is a dance.

"Back" and "down" to the Worst.

David Morris


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