TR 2.3 - Homecoming?

[Michael Bailey]

>
> I suppose it'd be excessive to say that the suppression of
> emotionality and public raving except by the maximum leader and his
> limbaughs is part of our repressive fascist society...
>

yes, upon reflection, that's not accurate, is it?
never mind...

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to be old school for a minute

Wyatt's sin is pride
"of man's first disobedience, and the fruit"
as Milton said
theologically, pride leads to disobedience and insubordination

- the opener of the whole book is how forgery and imposture deprived
him of Camilla!
so for him to fall into forgery and imposture replicates the sin of Sinisterra

so, if Sinisterra's sin is the "original sin" of the book -
posing as what one is not in order to escape the consequences of being
what one is (which is a fraud)?

(and why is it a sin - because you can't actually do it sustainably, maybe?)

thus, ironically, the consequences of pride are shame

from a procedural point of view, pride is like a filibuster of the
soul which keeps raising objections to avoid having to face an obvious
consensus

again theologically, to repent is to stop sinning and feel remorse.
but where is the quietude of soul this should give Wyatt?  He is
probably failing to feel remorse, although deep down that may have
been his motivation -- and returning to his father's mansion has
parallels to Satan leaving Hell and returning to Heaven, but of course
the differences are many and obvious -  and there isn't any folklore
about that actually happening, or not much (Book of Job? Satan just
visiting) - so perhaps Wyatt's disjointed ramblings come from the
conflict between a grand impulse, or an impulse to do something grand,
to give over sin and return to the fold, dramatically, clearly,
unambiguously - and the multiple strayings and ambiguities which he
can't help but notice and comment upon and anguish over (because he
still isn't genuinely shriven)