VV(9) - Evan & Hugh

[David Morris]

There is a clear resemblance between our two father-son teams: The Stencils 
and Godolphins:

1)  Both sons, until spurred by fatherly influence, are ne'er-do-wells.

2)  Both had distant/absent fathers who were achievers for a larger cause:  
The Establishment.

3)  Both fathers instilled motivation into their sons via cabalism, maybe 
unintentionally.

----------
(157)  intimations of a plot, a cabal grand and mysterious: combined with 
that appeal to their only common possession. Either by itself would have 
made Evan ashamed:  ashamed at hallucinations belonging in a spy thriller, 
even more painfully ashamed for an attempt at something which should have 
existed but did not [...] But both, together, were like a parley of horses, 
capable of a whole arrived at by some operation more alien than simple 
addition of parts.
----------

Evan's oafishness is pointedly and consciously 
Anti-Establish(mentarianism-whatever-ment).  His is decidedly "anti."  He 
has no defined "pro" beyond a desire "to be left alone to never 'do well' in 
his own way."

This is not a lack of motivation, exactly.  It is a motivation to maintain 
an individual freedom unencumbered with the demands of "The Establishment," 
Peter-Pan-Esque...

But Evan's yearnings for that missing "something which should have existed, 
but did not," is enough to overcome his "heart's vagrancy."  Evan is truly 
searching for the  bonds of _relationship_, the lack of which is the root of 
his determined rebellion.  The implication here is that Evan's determined 
vagrancy is born of an anger, an injury, usually called rejection:  a need 
un-met: that of a loving father (and his mother never mentioned).  This need 
is "catholic."

Is this all Stencil's need?  Maybe.  But for me the message is more 
important than the messenger.  FORGET REALITY!!!  Reality in this text is 
unattainable, but the message survives.  Reality is the hob-goblin of little 
minds.

David Morris








_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com