GRGR (17) - The State of Peoplelessness

[Ron Meiners]

>
>Slothrop knows he is alone, has no people.  In this he is much like Enzian 
>and the Zone Hereros: dislocation and thus free-agency.  Existential 
>freedom.  It is a valuable commodity and also a great weight.
>

Agreed.  Both are in the "resistance" or "paranoid" phase- struggling
against the forces "controlling" (conditioning?) humanity (gods, how blunt,
but there you go...)

>
>But Slothrop does continue to play the game.  He does go on somebody else's 
>voyage.  Slothrop IS free, I think, but he hasn't yet learned the great 
>value, nor the great responsibility of his being free.
>
>David Morris
>
Slothrop continues to progress, eventually dissolving even this structure.
I forget whether or not Enzian does as well.  
Value of freedom, certainly.  Enzian is responsible, but not yet free.
Could you clarify how you see the responsibility of freedom?

Thanks,
rm