Re: My Reddit comments on Webb’s funeral

[David Morris]

Reading: What Webb let become of his family is the main reason AUTHORIALLY
he ended up the way he did. The way he died and was buried, that is.

OK.  Let’s break this statement down to its primary components, subject,
verb, object:

SUBJECT:  “*What* (Webb let become of his family) ”
VERB:  *“is”*
OBJECT:  *“the* (main)* reason* (AUTHORIALLY he ended up the way he did).”

*FIRST*
The SUBJECT of the  statement (*WHAT*) has a modifier with its own
subject,verb & object: ”*Webb let become of his family*.”

This subject, “What,”  has a three parts modifier with its own subject,
verb, & object
SUBJECT:  *Webb*
VERB:  *Let*
OBJECT:  *Become* (of his family)

I think the key word of this modifier is the verb “*to Let*.”

1: to cause to : MAKE <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make>

let me know

2a: to give opportunity to or fail to prevent:

live and let live

a cloud break let us see the summit

let the opportunity slip

2b—used in the imperative to introduce a request or proposal:

let us pray

2c—used as an auxiliary to express a warning:

let him try

3: to free from or as if from confinement:

let out a scream

let blood

4: to permit to enter, pass, or leave:

let them through

let them off with a warning

This object, “become,” is a verb that functions like a noun in the
modifying phrase, meaning a “thing” that Webb “let.”  And this *THING* thus
is a substitute or defining equivalent of the *subject “what” of the
primary statement.*

So, this *THING* that Webb  *made, or caused into being, or gave
opportunity to, or failed to prevent, or requested to be introduced, or
permitted to enter*, is the SUBJECT of the primary statement.

*NEXT*
“*IS*” is the statement’s *VERB*.

Definition of is (Entry 1 of 4)

present tense third-person singular of BE
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be>

dialectal present tense first-person and third-person singular of BE
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be>

dialectal present tense plural of BE
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be>


is- combining form
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/combining%20form>

Definition of is- (Entry 4 of 4)

1: equal : homogeneous : uniform

*THIRD*
*“the* (main)* reason* (AUTHORIALLY he ended up the way he did).” Is the
*OBJECT* of the primary statement.

Essential Meaning of reason

1: a statement or fact that explains why something is the way it is, why
someone does, thinks, or says something, or why someone behaves a certain
way

I gave a reason for my absence.

Is there a reason for your strange behavior?

So the statement’s OBJECT is the (authorial) explanation, or list of causes
and manners of, in all its details of the Ways and Why’s of Webb’s END in
ATD.

Restated:  The horrifying death and the disrespect of his pre-burial (in
Jeshemon) and burial (with the *Union’s* meanest kind of disrespect)  was
written into the story the way that it was, or is explained by the author
to have happened because of Webb’s causing or inviting or failing to
prevent what became of Webb’s family.

So, something that Webb caused before his death (we presume) to happen to
his family after his death was the cause of his own horrific death.  Would
this be called a manifestation of Jiu-Jitsu Karma?  Or something???

I think only an especially cruel God would play that fate game.

David Morris

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 1:12 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> Since I am not making time to reread enough of AtD, although I did reread
those eight pages you put in my hip, I am asking your opinion of this
reading [interpretation] of Webb here re the union.

Reading: What Webb let become of his family is the main reason AUTHORIALLY
he ended up the way he did. The way he died and was buried, that is.

Mark