Austra

[Mark Kohut]

Maybe it would be hopeless to try to run away, but the kitchen
Slaves--yes they are Keith, I double-checked---have. But I think she
does have more self-awareness as presented, LOTS MORE, she articulates
the sex dynamics of the household.
It is as if she has more self-awareness because she has had to
internalize her oppression?? Unjust reality against a natural human
mind ends up with the mind knowing its situation.

The privileged have little insight. Kitchen Slaves just run off; the
clueless Patriarch; mom and girls and one thing (besides hair) on
their minds. Domestic economy of baby-making.

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just saying that it would be so easy for Austra to walk away, like the
> whole kitchen staff did, but she doesn't. As Joseph pointed out, maybe the
> price of freedom is too high, or maybe she enjoys her servitude, or at least
> tolerates it because it's easier than running away. She does have a certain
> amount of power in the situation, if only because she seems to have more
> self-awareness than the V-girls. In that sense, she might have more freedom
> than they do.
>
> (Maybe it's a wrong assumption that the kitchen staff were also slaves. Have
> to re-read that.)
>
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
> Sent from Beyond the Zero
>
> On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:23 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Your question is comming from a place of (I presume) male privilege.
> A slave is what the law defines it to be. "It" is  the correct pronoun. Not
> a person.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Saturday, February 7, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Larger question, do we all choose our servitude, or would we choose to
>> escape from it if presented with the possibility?
>>
>>
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>> Sent from Beyond the Zero
>>
>> > On Feb 7, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > ...is a slave? At the end of Ch. 8, the girls follow M & D up to the
>> > observatory. Austra is the authority here, as far as the girls are
>> > concerned. It seems she could so easily slip away into the continent and
>> > personal freedom. Does she choose her servitude?
>> >
>> >
>> > Www.innergroovemusic.com
>> > Sent from Beyond the Zero
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