GRGR tainted love

[jbor]

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>From: Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com>
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> 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.

That's right. In fact, if millison had his way the only true and proper
(untainted?) relationship Enzian could ever have would be with someone of
his own race. He wouldn't have been able to move from Namaland (now Namibia,
-- at a pinch millison might have let him run off into the Botswanan
Kalahari; of course, he'd have died there, but at least he would have been
"free") or interact with any white person without this taintedness
corrupting the relationship and occasioning such "psychological damage" on
him that no-one would believe or pay any heed to what he said anyway.

I think there were laws in various places which actually regulated this
vision of millison's at one stage, too. They were called apartheid.