V-2nd: Grasping and not...

[Emma Wrigley]

>p. 13 perennial edition:  He had no impulse to bring her closer.
"Whatever you 
>decide". 
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>Madonna, he thought, I have a dependent now.
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>Fear of commitment, as the contemporary cliche goes 
>but..........................
>differently expressed?............I could riff on it and might but, for
now
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>Thoughts from anyone else?
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>"Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness..."

For sure a fear of commitment, maybe a fear of not being able to see
'beyond himself' in order to commit. If he is always a stranger in a
strange land then his eyes will always be inward (protectively).
Commitment necessitates becoming one with this alien environment and yet
his greatest fear is being alone there, where 'nothing lives but
himself'. An easy way to get sick of yourself is an inability to stop
analysing...and being driven to be alone.

(or atleast somesuch that I scrawled in my margin an age ago...
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