GRGR Finale: "No return."

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, jbor wrote:

> 
> The point being made I think, with Enzian and Weissmann as with much else in
> *GR*, is captured in these two simple words. There is "no return" for Enzian
> to a faith in the tribal gods of the Herero people (323.28); there is "no
> return" for America along that wrong path taken by the early Puritans; there
> is "no return" for a world tainted by the extinction of the dodo, the
> annihilation of the innocent citizens of Hiroshima; and, implicitly rather
> than explicitly perhaps, but just as saliently, "no return" from the
> genocide of the Jews during WW2.
> 
> There is "no return" to a prelapsarian state of grace, either, but that is
> as much beside the point of *GR* as are James Bond, Madame Butterfly,
> pedophilia and the number of actual women (as opposed to our friend Sybil, I
> guess) who post to the p-list.


In GR "no return" means that They may not die (like We do) but "it now
within the state of their art to go on forever." This is expressed
by Enzian as desertion by his gods. In any event a different nonquietistic 
stategy must be employed. "They may not be dying in bed any more, but
maybe They can still die from violence. If not, at least we can learn to
withhold from Them our fear of Death."

Is there any reason to think such an approach would lead anywhere?
Probably not. I agree, no return is pretty much beside the point.

Incidently 99.9 percent of the 50 millions (???) killed in WWII were
innocent.
	
			P.