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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