Subject: suicide
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 12:36:08 EST
Jim said:
> There ya go :) But this is different from the "suicide from despair" that
> Seymour committed. I think in Confucianism this would be condemned as an
> escape from duty.
Drop the western aversion to suicide to grok this. In japan suicide
means reclaimation of honor. It is the west that thinks your are
shrugging some duty by suicide. When a man cannot support his family any
longer -- loses his job -- he commits suicide. This is honorable.
Scottie's point about Messiah makes sense. If APDFB were written after
F&Z it would be horribly obvious and we'd rail JDS for hitting us over the
head with such a heavy handed allusion. But preceding F&Z with it gives a
bit of mystery, that JDS didn't know he'd become a messiah.
-j
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