Spirituality/Egoism/Egoism/Humility
This week's has several important in terms of character development sections.
Fist is Mario, who is revealed to physically have difficulty feeling pain and thus have somewhat of an invincibility illusion. More importantly, however, he appears to be currently the most spiritual of all primary characters as he honestly believes in God. Simultaneously, he is the most open of all characters, to the point of naivette, since he even has trouble understanding others' secrecy and discomfort and the spiritual. Passignly, he notes that he can no longer read Hal's state, which he finds distressing.
Next is Orin, who is described as what essentially is an emotional carnal symbiotic parasity, feeding upon his Subjects' emotions and carnal pleasure, which he himself provided. Simultaneously, he attempts to make himself exclusive and unique within their lives; he wants to practically take over his Subjects' minds.
Then there's Gately, whose relationship with the Residents is extended through the description of his managerial stess and professionalism regarding certain rules(curfew, urine sample) and lax attitude for others(smoking). Gately appears much colder and egotistical in this reading, as all of his actions are done because they are his job, because him not doing them would result in a lot more distress the following day. It is important to note that his protection of the Residents is motivated priamrily from the worry of what would happen if a resident died on his shift. Similary, his beef is something, although he fears admitting it, actively enjoys. His sacrifice is both in the name of his personal enjoyment and temple(job at EH)-recognition, not interpersonal assistance.
Finally, Hal has, misteriously, decided to sober up, to give up on his subtance of choice. The circumstances around his primary motivation is as of now unclear. His descriebd thoughts that he deserved to lose to Stice, however, appear to communciate a certain humility, which was not previously present. Curiously, DFW reiterates during the game in the conversation between DeLint and Steeply Schitt's theory of the inside, unchewable world. An implicit connection is thus that Hal's has finally understood Stice's inclinations(which fits in the chronology, as Hal being high during Eschathon led him into trouble, while later during a.m. drills he was constantly pained by his tooth, whose faith is as well unclear, but I presume has began corroding due to his substance-related activities and may be in part motivation for Hal).
Fist is Mario, who is revealed to physically have difficulty feeling pain and thus have somewhat of an invincibility illusion. More importantly, however, he appears to be currently the most spiritual of all primary characters as he honestly believes in God. Simultaneously, he is the most open of all characters, to the point of naivette, since he even has trouble understanding others' secrecy and discomfort and the spiritual. Passignly, he notes that he can no longer read Hal's state, which he finds distressing.
Next is Orin, who is described as what essentially is an emotional carnal symbiotic parasity, feeding upon his Subjects' emotions and carnal pleasure, which he himself provided. Simultaneously, he attempts to make himself exclusive and unique within their lives; he wants to practically take over his Subjects' minds.
Then there's Gately, whose relationship with the Residents is extended through the description of his managerial stess and professionalism regarding certain rules(curfew, urine sample) and lax attitude for others(smoking). Gately appears much colder and egotistical in this reading, as all of his actions are done because they are his job, because him not doing them would result in a lot more distress the following day. It is important to note that his protection of the Residents is motivated priamrily from the worry of what would happen if a resident died on his shift. Similary, his beef is something, although he fears admitting it, actively enjoys. His sacrifice is both in the name of his personal enjoyment and temple(job at EH)-recognition, not interpersonal assistance.
Finally, Hal has, misteriously, decided to sober up, to give up on his subtance of choice. The circumstances around his primary motivation is as of now unclear. His descriebd thoughts that he deserved to lose to Stice, however, appear to communciate a certain humility, which was not previously present. Curiously, DFW reiterates during the game in the conversation between DeLint and Steeply Schitt's theory of the inside, unchewable world. An implicit connection is thus that Hal's has finally understood Stice's inclinations(which fits in the chronology, as Hal being high during Eschathon led him into trouble, while later during a.m. drills he was constantly pained by his tooth, whose faith is as well unclear, but I presume has began corroding due to his substance-related activities and may be in part motivation for Hal).
posted by Vladimir S at 7:01 PM
2 Comments:
First of all- not to poke or comment on this for no reason, it was mentioned earlier that Mario did have difficulty feeling pain- I believe when it was mentioned the Orin enjoyed being able to bend his limbs further than should normally be bent- in essence during their childhood he enjoyed being able to torture Mario without MArio complaining to their parents.
I think this references an interesting idea with Orin finding pleasure by feeding off the pleasure of others. I am unsure of whether your analysis of Orin is correct, since Orin does enjoy giving them pleasure, but the reading also says that Orin initally did this so that he wouldn't consume them. I believe that he more wants to be in their head at all times, but not neccessarily consume thier mind
This refering to Orin's relationship with Mario and the "Subjects" he still enjoys the torture of individuals, finding a sick pleasure in wha should cause them pain or discomfort, but no real harm. This can be seen when Orin chooses to take the AFR's.
I think with Gately that his temple is his job at Ennet House and that he had true compassion for the residents when he started, but throughout his staffing his compassion for the residents has dissipated(though he still has a snall amount of compassion left which is shown through his determination for them not to be fined and ignoring smoking). Which now he only continues these activites because he has deemed the job his temple. Which this brings up and interesting idea of the temple actually causing the worshipper to lose an initial part of the thing the were worshipping. This is to say that the worshipper loses their affinity to proform necessary tasks for the temple and only continues to do these tasks because it is for the temple. Devotion to this temple is also very drainign to the worshipper, which once again Gately experiences from working double shifts. This is just like what happens with the tennis players, tennis is their temple but being in this temple kills a part of them and wears them down.
P.S. how much do you want to bet Graham this displays the time I finished the post not started (I have no idea why I am still on this topic, but it bothers me)
P.P.S. I started posting at 9:40
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