GRGR tainted love

Jeremy Osner jeremy at xyris.com
Tue Sep 12 12:06:09 CDT 2000


Doug Millison wrote:

> Of course Enzian "loves"  Weissmann/Blicero; in my reading,  this
> "love" can't and doesn't exist free of taint from significant outside
> influences

I agree with this reading; however the way I read GR you can apply that
statement much more broadly, something like "nothing anyone ever does is
free of taint from [colonialism, capitalism, Freemasonry,...]" I don't know
that I would single out Enzian's love for Weissman as tainted over and above
every other sympathetic character's every thought and action.

Jeremy




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