GRGR(31) Some Notes and Questions

Terrance Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Mon Jul 10 16:15:36 CDT 2000



Cjhurtt6 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 7/10/00 12:30:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> millison at online-journalist.com writes:
> 
> << 676.14 What is "Slothrop's *own* gift and Fatal Flaw"? >>
> just a shot in the dark,but, maybe his unraveling?

Sounds right to me. What does Fowler say on this? It's a
gift, the Radiant hour, no S&M, id, ego, super-ego on equal
ground, but "unfit for living",  loss of identity, "there is
no direction, neither lines of power nor cooperation.
Decision are never really made." The alternative is
solipsistic "identity ", and traditionally the way to escape
solipsistic "human consciousness" it some sort of
transcendence into the realm of essences or forms or the
sublime, but in GR, these are baneful and destructive and
the quest for these also leads to a loss of identity or the
quester's annihilation.



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