GR again, the old lower case fascism again

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:
> Paradoxically, the struggle against Nazism gives people like Pointsman
> the means and moral justification for act in a fascist fashion....
>

in GR the Pointsman's lust for children proposed in a scenario
of him sitting in a bus station waiting for waifs, is drawn with
a hypothetical "you" instead of "he", as if he is mentally thinking
in the second person like you do sometimes about your own thoughts...

(Margaret Drabble brings up child sexuality in _A Natural Curiosity_
in a rather more straightforward manner, though it is still rather
sidelong (I just began to speculate while typing that the title
may in fact refer to that phenomenon))

But anyway, in GR, the application of his prurient tendencies
to the helpless informs his professional activities too.

Like Roger Mexico, his mother is the War: activities that his
earthly mother would probably not approve are countenanced.

Oh, I just caught this: if Roger's mother is the War, and if he
says "fuck the War" - what does that make him?






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