MDDM Ch. 22 Notes (1)

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> Thanks for keeping up with this, by the way ...

Buzzed into Chapter 22 late last night and couldn't keep my head from
dropping. 
Can't keep up, but... just want to note that in all those
paradise/purgatory/hell settings we continue to see doubles on stage
(hinged mirrors?). All reminds me of Joseph Conrad.

"Betray.  A great word.  What is betrayal?  They talk of a man
betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart.  There must
be a moral bond first.  All a man can betray is his conscience."

		--Under Western Eyes

Darkness at Heart Fathers and Sons in Conrad

By CATHARINE RISING

Description: This study of Conrad's fiction addresses a major theme
neglected in previous studies: the protagonist's struggle to find (or
keep) his place in a world of men. Structured around Conrad's use and
subsequent abandonment of Oedipal compromise, the book provides a
Freudian and post-Freudian analysis of father/son relationships in
Conrad's work, either at the family or social level.


Well, the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame,
Preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.
Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks,
Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain,
False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin,
Only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin' in.



The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.