On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Andre Broersen wrote:
> Remember Phaedrus' description of Lila: biologically she's fine,
> socially not very high on the scale, as an intellectual she is
> nowhere...yet she can cook, count, do the shopping, have conversations
> and talk real posh...if she wants to...but this has very little to do
> with the intellectual level.
> At least this is how I read the MoQ.
"'Fuck your questions! I'm whatever your questions turn me into. You don't see
that.
It's your questions that make me who I am. If you think I 'm an angel then
that's what
I am. If you think I'm a whore then that's what I am. I'm whatever you think.
And if you
change your mind about me then I change too. So whatever Richard tells you,
it's true.
There's no way he can lie about me.'"
(LILA, Chapter 14)
"Each person you come to is a different mirror. And since you're just another
person
like them maybe you're just another mirror too, and there's no way of ever
knowing
whether your own view of yourself is just another distortion. Maybe all you
ever see
is reflections. Maybe mirrors are all you ever get. First the mirrors of your
parents,
then friends and teachers, then bosses and officials, priests and ministers and
maybe
writers and painters too. That's their job too, holding up mirrors.
But what controls all these mirrors is the culture: the Giant, the gods; and if
you run
afoul of the culture it will start throwing up reflections that try to destroy
you, or it will
withdraw the mirrors and try to destroy you that way."
(LILA, Chapter 20)
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