> Marsha: > What may be interesting about Lila is her *recognizing* the social level's > "naive realism" in the psychological sense: whatever people think being what > is "real" - reality. This recognition is evident In Chapter 14: "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." It is insightful, but I doubt that it would raise > her to the level of a mystic.
David: Yes - there is a difference between the insane Lila and the mystics. While, as you point out, Lila rejects cultural patterns much like a mystic - she does eventually settle into (insane) static patterns of her own while a mystic would reject all patterns including their own. > Marsha: > Perhaps if she had demonstrated this insightful understanding throughout the > book she might have qualified as a mystic, but she clearly did not. She > lapsed into pronouncing social judgements based on "whatever she thought" > quite often. If she had demonstrated a consistent non-attachment to static > patterns (killed them all), she might have risen to that of a wise sage. > There was no tragic or happy ending to the story, so we are free to > speculate, or not. David: I agree. However at the end of the book the talking doll makes it pretty clear that it's doubtful she'll ever work through these patterns and that Rigel (with his social moralist ego) has her for life. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
