"Morality" in *GR* (cont.)

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Fri Jul 14 07:15:44 CDT 2000


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>From: Terrance <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net>

> The allusion to Conrad's {we are in the Zone in most of
> scenes being discussed) Heart of Darkness on the first page
> of the Zone provides the answer to this reader.

Except it's Slothrop's ancestors, his "own WASPs in buckled black" who
"reassert themselves", *not* the "quaint superstitions" of "Darkest Africa"
at all. (281)

> Not in the
> Zone. In the Zone no one is even sure what the trial is for.
> It's quite liberating isn't it. Judge not and yee shall not
> be judged.

" ... For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what
measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. ... "



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