GRGR(12): reality version

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, David Morris wrote:

> 
> The allegory falls apart only if you try to connect the two separate issues 
> (below), which I admit is implied in Squalidozzi's lament:
> 
> 1.  Free Range Vs. Property/Progress
> 2.  Genocide of the Indians
> 
> Squalidozzi is fully aware of his guilt.  I think he harkens back to a time 
> of openess and freedom and guiltlessness (which probably never existed).

True, and we can help making the connections. As we can't help seeing that
Weissman is both scoundrel and poetically/sensually a charmer. Or
that Austra is both slave and rather take-charge forceful woman. Or that
technology both enslaves us and sets us free.

Melville was ahead of his time.

Perhaps I'm stretching the point.

		P.