brilliant!! .. an astute question and answer .. yes health is the very aspect he felt threatened by ..rivenrock wrote:For an instant, he stared at her, at her high, perfect breasts and her short slip, with grim triumph in his eyes, as though he had just exposed some foul plot.
What is that foul plot? What is conspiring to destroy him? Health. The Land threatens him with its 'illusion' of health. Lena herself - because she is young, and beautiful, and healthy and wholesome and trusting, not only highlights all he has lost, but also threatens his sanity.
Knowing how real the threat of insanity is to him makes any notion of health sense unpalitable to his rational mind.
yes i agree and yet .. there is even a sense of disconnectedness from that reality which easily identify .. I am not sure he 'forgets' Lena .. as within that moment .. that dream time seeming moment .. he is prepared to disregard her in his pursuit of that "selfish eagerness to [experience] that power and passion"rivenrock wrote:And that's the point at which, experiencing potency of many kinds for the first time in a long time, he loses all sense of what he is actually doing, and forgets Lena in his angry, selfish, eagerness to feel that power and passion.
exactly ..rivenrock wrote:Donaldson wanted you to be bothered greatly
wonderful insight rivenrock .. a real pleasure to read ..