P's Mothers & Why should we kill Daddy?

[David Morris]

Fourty Years,

Moses, the Judaic Father-figure comes to mind.  But what was the historic 
case 40 years before this time in the zone?

"because 40 years ago we could not kill them"

Seems to me a vital question re. this text.  No answers from here as of yet.

DM


>From: Terrance
>
>"He is the father you will never quite manage to kill. The
>Oedipal situation in the Zone these days is terrible. There
>is no dignity. The mothers have been masculinized to old
>worn moneybags of no sexual interest to anyone, and yet here
>are the sons, still trapped inside inertias of lust that are
>40 years out of date. The fathers have no power today and
>never did, but because 40 years ago we could not kill them,
>we are condemned now to the same passivity, the same
>masochist fantasies THEY cherished in secret, and worse, we
>are condemned in our weakness to impersonate men of power
>our own infant children must hate, and wish to usurp the
>place of, and fail....So generation after generation of men
>in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the
>Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying,
>desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them,
>however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life
>defined for them by men whose only talent is for death."
>(GR.747)

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