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> I too am sure that I have seen Hannsen somewhere. He really is everyman.
> Why can't he look like the spies that Hollywood has crafted for us??
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You are aware of "Everyman": the Medieval "morality play"?
I have a copy of it at:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/everyman.html
Is Hannsen Everyman? Perhaps he is to the extent that
he has not thought about the implications of his daily
doings for ~his last journey~. But, through his plea bargain,
he has postponed his day of reckoning perhaps
for several decades (AKA "manyana"...).
Maybe Hanssen is more like one of Andy Warhol's individuals
who get their 15 minutes of fame. That would make him
different from Everyman, who, in general, to
repeat Michelet's phrase: is one of "the little people
who end up even more dead than the rest" (because their
name is not recorded in the history books, etc.).
If Hannsen takes up some meditative discipline
or devotes himself to study or decides to write or
draw, he may well do better than some law abiding
citizens on the outside -- or at least that's my
guess. Who knows? He may even find peace keeping
the account books in the prison office.
The end is the same for all,
old men and young alike,
when, in its season,
man's heritage of underworld appears.
There is then no wedding song, no music and no dance,
Death is the finish.
(--Sophocles, probably from Oedipus at Colonus)
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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