GRGR fathers and sons
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Wed Aug 16 15:51:18 CDT 2000
Very pretty interpretation of this passage, although I'd caution
against the too-literal reading of an AIDS reference (723.30); I'd
rather link the fathers/sons material here to the earlier references
of same in GR -- the youthful Slothrop's Freudian situation in the
Rocket-City, for example. The leap from these passages to an
imperative that the reader find within him/herself a Blicero seems a
bit tenuous, but no more outlandish than some other GR readings that
have been suggested. You could just as easily read the passage as a
condemnation of Blicero, who willfully infects the next generation --
instead of breaking the chain -- out of adherence to some twisted,
creation-hating Gnostic creed.
rj:
>The demand Blicero is
>making of Gottfried here is no longer one of submission, but of acceptance.
What's the difference between submission and acceptance on demand?
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