Recog ch 2 Why is Wyatt like this?

[Paul Mackin]

On 4/22/2011 9:11 AM, Richard Ryan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:07 AM, David Payne<dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>> Are there parallels between Wyatt and Lazarus?
>>
>> Gaddis Annotations (referring to something else):
>>
>> "Nothing betrays more clearly the excessive fear of death felt in the Middle Ages than the popular belief, then widely spread, according to which Lazarus, after his resurrection, lived in a continual misery and horror at the thought that he should have again to pass through the gate of death"
>>
>> So, he's a zombie, a sort of forgery of a living human? Maybe that's a reasonable reaction to the times--not to mention his upbringing.
>
> I love the Lazarus citation, and maybe it's appropriate to Wyatt -
> although he seems to me so far to be an odd mixture of flattened
> affect and trembling urgency.  When we're told the fever "never left
> his eyes", I read that as saying there was always something feverish
> (i.e., slightly delirious) in his gaze.  Maybe that true of zombies
> too - never looked one in the eye.

"I am Lazarus, come from the dead,

Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--

--Prufrock

Isn't Wyatt Christ arisen from the dead?

Despite all, he's the best in the book.

But this being said, I very much like "flattened affect and trembling urgency."


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>> Other p-listers noted that dad was acting pretty weird, too, which make sense if you figure he (dad) ferried their mother across the waters to death, then wandered hell and escaped with his wife (well, actually he escaped with an ape that he later sacrificed to save his son who had sacrificed a bird to redeem his sin of creating a bird...).
>>
>> Or maybe mom was killed by a fake doc in order to reference the death of the White Goddess at the hands of Christians?
> Some of all of that.
>

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