GRGR tainted love

[Terrance]

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

Every thought and action? What that means I don't know, but
it is Blicero/Weissmann that  is singled out by the text.
Not as tainted love, oh for god's sake, tainted? No, that
kind of language only ends up falling into the ditch
blindly. For an example of where or what this blind leading
the blind hysteria falls into, see Robert's comments below. 

> 
> 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.


Tainted is what Robert is doing each time he references
apartheid and all those that 
have struggled against it's evil thoughts, actions, and
passions.