"Morality" in *GR*

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 14 12:47:03 CDT 2000


Howdy

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
)snip) ....it is compounded by his self-delusion about the
> different
> "Ilses" whom he meets each year. Previously, one of the young girls
> who
> might or might not be Ilse had touched his calf seductively:
> 
>    ... A number of uncertainties shifted then for Pokler and locked
> into
>    sense. To his shame his first feeling was pride. He hadn't known
> he was
>    so vital to the program. Even in this initial moment he was seeing
> it
>    from Their side --...
> As with Tyrone there's a lotta ambiguity, fragmentation, enigma
> surrounding
> Pokler, too.
> 

But can he see the moment from "Ilse's" side? Could she be trying to
make herself "vital" to this stranger?  Making a play for release from
Dora, investing her only remaining asset in Pokler?  Her bid fails, and
she retreats immediately back to role she knows They will hold her to.

Mark

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