free will and piracy

paul witcover · 18 Dec 2007, 13:23 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: gdeonn at yahoo.com (paul witcover)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:23:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) free will and piracy
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Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:    On an unrelated note, I do think that any discussion
of the moral ambiguity inherent in Father Chris must
confront the older version breaking down in tears when
the young novitiate leaves and falls into the past -
an older version that never once tries to deter the
younger man from the path that will lead to murder,
debauchery, and other piratical pass times.

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  The question is, why does Ignacio cry at this point?  My reading was that his tears were not provoked by any sense of empathy for what his younger self is about to experience, but rather the overwhelming emotional release of finally reaching the moment for which he has labored his entire adult life.  He's crying because he is finally going back to Novia.  Chris is nothing to Ignacio beyond a necessary cog in the mechanism that will take him back and allow him to reunite with her.

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