Re: My Reddit comments on Webb’s funeral

[Mark Kohut]

let me just ask it straight: How do you think TRP "sees" Webb in Against
the Day?

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 1:40 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>