TRTR(I.3) Hidden Profits [Epigraph]
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at verizon.net
Fri Apr 29 12:42:24 CDT 2011
On 4/29/2011 1:08 PM, David Morris wrote:
> When I read their dialogue I constantly wonder why Wyatt would ever
> have gotten married, and especially to someone like Esther, who can't
> stand to let him be. The intro re. his "decision" to marry her is
> circuitous... I should read it again
We make painful choices in order to get rid of the pain of needing to
make painful choices.
Choices are painful because we know that they will probably be the wrong
choice.
Turns out the right decision is only a subset of the wrong decision.
Like Alice, ich bin eine Wyatt.
P.
> Her line of questioning him at one point comes very close to stating
> that she suspects Wyatt to be homosexual.
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Something (probably not God) has denied Esther and Wyatt the ability to make a "good" choice with regard to their marriage, because they have made quite an "evil" one. Reason was of no avail. It served only to conceal. Deconstruction was not yet a fad, but the first couple paragraphs sound very much like an undermining of life choices. The logocentricism of it all. And no Savior to come.
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