175s

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> David Morris wrote:
> >
> > Indeed.  This has always been one segment of GR I've stumbled over.
> >
> > As jbor has indicated from the text, the worship is toward "absolute"
> > (badass, hee, hee!) power.

"His power is absolute." There is not a more negative term
in GR. But this one term is not all we get here. 

"He is the Zone's worst specter." The worst. 

"He is malignant, he pervades the lengthening summer
nights." Persuasiveness is another negative term. obviously
malignancy is also very negative.

"Like a cankered root..."  Infection, disease, ulcer,
decay...not good in GR. 

"Like a cankered root he is changing, growing toward winter,
growing whiter..." 
White! Whiter!

"...Growing whiter, toward the idleness and the famine." 

"Who else could the 175s have chosen for their very highest
oppressor?" 

What happened to the irony, the irony that says that the
175s experience their 'liberation' from Dora as a banishment
as homesickness? It's still there, but now that Blicero has
been described, his Badass Power indeed, what have we got
now? He is their oppressor, the have chosen him to be their
oppressor. Why? 

"His power is absolute."

Why do characters in GR seek to be oppressed by absolute
power?