LSD

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
> It doesn't sound to me like the vengeful and unrepentant cry of an evil
Nazi
> scientist in willing cahoots with the C.I.A. trying to brainwash everyone
> for fun and/or profit. It sounds to me more like Hilarius has tried to
> "atone" and serve his "penance" for his involvement in war crimes by
working
> for the U.S. Establishment, trying to contribute to society, doing what he
> is told or expected to do, but that what he is engaged in in the community
> hospital-sponsored experiment is against his personal and professional
> beliefs and judgement. I'd be interested to hear what you think.


   Well, I found the scene baffling as hell. A very muddled atonement on
Hilarius's part,.apparently a principal element  being a jokey acceptance of
Freud the Jew over Jung (is this to show he doesn't discriminate?) along
with the unbelievable assertion that Freud's view of humanity was a rosy
one, the exact opposite of the truth of course.. Is this H's or P's mistake.
Probably neither. As I say it was merely baffling. I will venture this.
Though, knowing what we the readers know of Buchenwald Hilarius's past is
vile but now he seems less repentant  than nuts. Perhaps driven so by the
horror of it all to be sure. Just my off the top of the head opinion.

  Relative to Malignd's critique we can only wonder why there was not a tiny
bit of foreshadowing of this scene when we met Herr Doktor in chapter 1.
P.