TMOP Chapter 9 - Nechaev

[Henry]

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If the scream comes from far away, does it come across the sky?  Is the
Matthew quote one of the End Time references so popular this political
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris

TMOP Chapter 9 - Nechaev

In the apartment before the tall woman's identity is discovered, D.
reasons with the Finn and warns her that her soul is in peril should
she follow through with murdering someone from the Vengeance List.
Then, after these words, "I have a duty toward my son that I cannot
evade," a "heavy silence" befalls him.  His part in this dialogue
halts, and then:

"From far away comes a scream that must be his own.   _There will be a
gnashing of teeth_ - the words flash before him, then there is an end.

This Biblical quote is from Matthew 13: 49-50 in which after speaking
hidden wisdom in parables to the multitudes, the parable of the wheat
and the tares,  later in private explains their meaning.  It is
meaningful that D. refers to the explanation of a parable because D is
constantly inventing and wrestling with metaphor, and a parable is
described as an extended metaphor.

"So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth,
and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the
furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

It unclear to whom this scream is aimed, the People's Vengeance or D
himself in failing the "duty he cannot evade."

These voices D hears, which seem to be coming from within himself, are
a part of a pattern in which all of D's words seem to "come" to him
without his volition.  Somewhere in the book he says he "trusts" this
flow of words emanating from him, and lets them flow without resisting
any of them.  He sees them as a source of truth.  In this regard D is
a kind of shaman/mystic who receives revelations via possession.

More later