Richard Slotkins Regeneration Through Violence
a heady
title not a book he could have through
his library
unfortunately books he
wanted to read were becoming increasingly rare an more so with the advent of ebooks audiobooks
others rather than physical texts
he
was a physical text
not a sleeve to be emptieddeposited refilled
said of the book “. . . persuasive
and eloquent arguments made for including and remembering, rather than for
merely giving focus to or encoding crucial historical experience . . .”
American mythology which many take as gospel truth it
aint
Slotkin utilised an epigraph from
D. H. Lawrence his Studies of Classic
American Literature tha
is an ebook through his library SURPRISE
“But you have there the myth of
the essential white America. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the
floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is
hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. not
to be celebrated if one is an American It has never
melted.”
American mythology
the reason of this preamble is
to understand how he got to Joseph Conrads quote which chilled him “death illuminated by unresponsive eyes”
from John Scalzis Old Man’s War:
“And there’s just one of me
again.
The other me. I can tell because I’m no longer staring at the new me anymore, I’m
looking at the old me.
And it stares at me likes it
knows something truly strange has just happened.
And then the stare seems to
say ‘ I’m
no longer needed.’
And then it closes its eyes.”
in the Old Mans case transference rather than death however the lonely uninhabited body shell has died expired is meat
whahave you
“unresponsive eyes” got him
tossed him to the grim lions inside
himself for the unresponsive eyes hes beheld
he might not be – though unlikely
– not be as twisted if the eyes were those of strangers rather than people he
loved
sometimes
he just had to say it outloud
set it down
be
unburdened
it will still be there to carry after he composed himself rested
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