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From: Manifest
Date: 23 Sep 2003
Time: 21:03:35 -0400
Remote Name: 216.192.10.16
Curious Author ~ It seems to me that if *divine intervention* liberates her, God is the hero here, and divine grace the instrument for salvation. How will turning the tables on the art patrons help the woman? How will it turn your artist into a hero? Seems to me it would just fill up the emergency room with more victims. Rather like a gang member who retaliates and ends up diverting resources from helping his buddy to doing haphazard triage for the most seriously injured. If you want him to be proactive, what is his intent? To assuage his guilt? To strike back? To regain his autonomy and power? Or to atone for his actions? Based on his past actions, his lack of good judgment should give him pause to consider his next actions and their consequences carefully, especially from the perspective of the *other* that he failed to use when he undertook and began doing the job. If his intent is atonement, knowing the right action to take to achieve at-one-ment with his victim can only come from her. All his own ideas of revenge are his own projections. Your victim is the only one who can tell him what he needs to do to right the wrong he did, to fulfill the five steps of atonement. How can he put her back together by aiming his intellect and talent elsewhere? Ahh, I see now. You want him to act in a way that "saves his soul and self-esteem." Will turning him into a victimizer (this time under his own employment) do that? Does losing his soul and self esteem have anything to do with the art patrons, or were they just the first ones to come along and offer the right amount to purchase a soul already lost and a self esteem already neglected? And was his soul really lost? Or was it just unawakened, lulled into inactivity until the horror of the impact of his work awakened it? What does he really want - to be a hero, to save his lost soul, or to personally right the wrong his actions have caused? Three paths.