Saturday, March 31, 2007

At what point did the suspicion arise? There must be some moment in the story where the main character first detects in himself a suspicion that he is being deceived; that his parents and all the other grown-ups are not telling him the truth. Or, perhaps he was suspicious from the very beginning of the story, that is, in the imagination of the author, in which case there is no point within the story at which the suspicion first arises. So I cannot finally say whether I became suspicious at some point in my life, or, whether I was born suspicious.

If one is suspicious one must investigate, get to the bottom of things ( must be an anal characteristic ). The fantasy involves the idea that certain authorities are keeping certain information hidden, so as to deceive me. Paranoia is "seeing through." So the character is less like a detective and more like a mental patient who suspects that the staff and the all the doctors which constitute his asylum are crazy, but "crazy like a fox."

Social order is always and only confined to "the green zone." The whole is always and only a mess and there is no possibility whatsoever of the part incorporating the whole. A body of law implies an outlaw; you can't have one without the other. It is Saturn's Day on Harris Creek.

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