VV(13) - Conspiracy
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 8 11:09:05 CDT 2001
Mondaugen's initiation into Foppl's world begins with his sighting a "patch
or pool of deep red" down in the inner courtyard of the castle. It makes
him shiver. And immediately he becomes Vera Meroving's voyuer. Sex and
Death are here unified by guilt, by a "conspiracy" to indulge in those
savory vices (sex & killing) but to pretend otherwise.
Vera and Weissmann's S&M mirror performance is surely staged just for
Mondaugen. It seem that Mondaugen is being purposely initiated into a new
world where the forbidden is embraced and where the innocent cannot stay so.
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(240) As if the entire day had come into being only to prepare him for
this, he discovered a Bondel male, face down and naked [...] Mondaugen
approached the man and stooped to listen for breathing or a heartbeat,
trying not to see the white vertebrae that winked at him from one long
opening.
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DM
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