Only .... here is our D25, despite everything, is bored in this life of humanity and pledged post, victim of a drive he knows himself set (an atavism? A desire to live humanity as D1?), he decided to move with his trusty Fox, mutt cloned D1, adventure beyond the gates ... This part of the story may be too short. D25 meets some human course, worse than the worst animals, passing their time to survive, to put on and kill. This reinforces D25 in his teachings bequeathed by the Supreme Saeur (Susan?) That, contrary to what it says very old Kant: "Every human being must be treated like an animal!" Then he wanders on the remains of what was Spain and the Mediterranean, flinguant the way some humans .... are just animals after all the rhetoric of D25. (Critical Note: Louis the fourteenth has drafted an ordinance saying to consider slaves as furniture ... Everything was said: free up to the globalization of slavery).
Then he found the sea (mother?), And finally let ourselves much in this innocent and benevolent bliss matrix (salt water to 37 degrees) where eventually he would never get out of. For the troubles really start there for the little man, the only mammals to scream as it exits the womb! I read maybe the message you want to leave Michel ... Too bad you had to be more explicit!
Good fiction after all. MH love Lovecraft, it is rather satisfactory.
Then comes the concomitant history of D1, so contemporary.
This is the great fear of aging and the difficulty of love that marks the story of the life of D1, which is worth another after all.
D1 is a famous comic and wealthy (MH does not like poverty and the poor) who, after several unconvincing experiences, meets a woman (beautiful and good situation) who loves but does not fulfill his aspirations at the sexual level . After a few years of happiness he will divorce amicably (it's easier when you're full of tunes!), Then the woman committed suicide shortly before he does euthanasia for the cause of Elohim cult da (reminiscent well sure the Raelians their aspirations). He will then meet a young woman who released respond to erotic and pornographic aspirations, who will not like and who will face this painful clarity: I am old, she is young ....
Sex and love are they reconciled in one person? That is the question !!!
Dying: big deal !! But old age ... .. (Brel). Michel, you we keys fifties that we perceive the beginning of our limitations, our weaknesses, our near and inevitable decay ... However the hero feels old already 45 banks ... a little exaggerated, unless have had a life of alcoholic / smoking or being very sick. No, the limit of old age seems to increase with our easy life without war and famine let in grateful !!! After the cult of the body young, beautiful and desirable (as the Greeks and the Nazis, you say) is real in our society, conveyed by the sanitized pubs, where girls 20 years are exalted for a product anti wrinkle !
Michel home, the wife of over 50 years is not at the party: just like a disposable Kleenex because not corresponding to social criteria sexually desirable. It's true that hormones are not sympathetic to women nor men globally ... But we know of women over fifty who are accomplished and continue to accomplish, not just on a spiritual level! - beyond 50 years !! You caricaturez !!
Where I am inclined to agree -having the cinquantecinquaine well accomplie- is that the problem is with the man ... No glory to grow old, to see his body decreased while the mind is stuffed full. I agree: the sexual act such as know the male is unique and incomparable. But then we must do something in the meantime! We can not spend his time obsessing over the perfect body but short-lived! You, you chose the writing and the more you are rich! (Critical Note: I think the old man is useless because it has nothing to transmit in this world of zap and buzz that goes so fast, where the truth of yesterday is no longer valid today, and where the values for which he fought sometimes become labile No experience he lived can be transposed and transmitted: the young person now knows more than him .. but is disarmed for the future because even for. it is also the world decidedly too fast, even if sometimes it seems fit). Well, from there to authorize the pretext that it would be incest had the new generations to older ...; Hmm ... handjob for disabled and then for old ... Why not? The male has maybe for last image on his deathbed a female ajar (as cruelly and beautifully painted in the origin of the world) ... Eros supersedes philia and agape, and holds us, the males, until death! If it's just that death, before the white light, then yes: big deal! Not sure that women dream of identical things, namely a male sex in his omnipotence ..... You do not know more than me Michael.
Furthermore, I do not think young women dream of being put every orifice at any time as you write. Pure male fantasy infinity and immediacy of enjoyment: it is fanatical Islamist, Christian or otherwise obsessed. No, they dream of eternal love and above all .... babies. Possibility of an Island actually, even if one day it will leave .... The prohibition of incest with the Kantian maxim of treating all human beings as equal and as an end and not a means, is foundation of authentic humanity of living together acceptable. After, everyone is free and consenting to the extent of his own desires and suffering ..... The man is like: torn by his reason (duty) and emotions (desires). This will not change, you know as well as I myself Michel, and most of our choices are driven by emotions. A new man does not invent ....
Another issue you raise: why humans persist to reproduce? Difficult and fundamental question of course. Maybe they are not as pessimistic as you about the future of humanity, perhaps just for fun. (Critic's note: and also less than a computer idiots who insists on not to offer "no" for an obvious lack of strikes ... The technology, what man would have done better as you say .. . um ... yes in part, on condition of not being obsessed there too). So I got reproduce, not for my children to wipe me one day, I hope they avoid this humiliation and to euthanize me before (there are aides paid for it, they are not all abusive (you do not like: too poor) Nor for them to be happy, even if I wish them ... It can be helped until 15 but then it's their life, their autonomy?. . And certainly not to carry my name to do anything !! So: a mystery indeed ... The possibility of an island ... .... I do not see ...
There remains the mystery of the Faith. It is true that as an atheist -like you- I'm quite disarmed face to individual or collective expressions of faith. As subdued, even envious yes, a love and a profound hope, finally genuine but is totally foreign to me. I did not grow up in this spirit and I have not (yet) been called (but why does it not suffice to reach this unconditional love, compassion Buddhists you quote? On the other next to love humanity as a whole and not love particular person, is it really love? The impossible equation of compassion and detachment. (Im) Possibility of an Island ... spiritual ...).
The best pages of the book are probably those of D1 meetings with the sect. Both detached spectator and active participant (he condones murder for charity anyway), it gives quite interesting portraits (the prophet and his court).
But -in watermark because it is never explicit but he vécu- the description of a deep depression: life in all its emptiness, without aim, without desire, without hope. Fortunately, meds ....
MH .... once we read his book ... often they come back ... It is not cursed as Rimbaud, Artaud ... even if it gives the bourgeois attitude (which cursed by by what?). Rather provocative, that raises real questions .... Their answers his way of being human that does what he can, as best he can, as we all eventually.
Men, humanity, sometimes we love, sometimes hate, we often get desperate, but in part, and in any case, even the most extreme hermits, we can not avoid this condition. We have the freedom to question, to criticize, it's a good. It's what you do Michel.
A good book, frankly. I do not put you the maximum score because of your lack of love of nursing assistants.
