GRGR (17) - The State of Peoplelessness

[David Morris]

>From: Ron Meiners >[snip]
> >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.
> >
>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?

Sure.  It's related to Slothrop's realization quoted earlier:
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(363.22)  The Schwartgerat is no Grail, Ace, that's not what the G in 
Impolex-G stands for. [...] But what you've done is put yourself on somebody 
else's voyage [...] playing her, its, game... You know that in some 
irreducible way it's an evil game.  You play because you have nothing better 
to do, but that doesn't make it right.
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Once his freedom has been realized, at least this step of that realization: 
He's been unwittingly on their path.  They are not his people.  After he's 
reached this step he needs to set his own course.  That's his 
responsibility.  That's also the harder part.

David Morris




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