Status Updates From Desgracia

8. At Lucy’s and her kennel of dogs

6. Before the committee, through the press. And one last plea, for compliance, from the Chair.

Strongly reminded of the trial of Camus’ Meursault. Lurie not impressed by the o, so subjective value of regret. One can predict it’s gonna cost him dearly, but the choice to not humiliate himself is somehow admirable, regardless of the damage he has done…

5. Word is out

4. The boy in the leather jacket
Threats with different styles of weapons. Between the boy and Lurie. And from the girl as she passes him on the back of the motorcycle

‘He is exactly what he calls himself: a thing , that is, a monster […] He will be condemned to solitude.’

3. Refusing to read the signals, while quoting Wordsworth who points out the differences between ‘to usurp upon’ and ‘to usurp’. The parallels are obvious.

Then the mystery of Melanie approaching, getting to sleep in Lurie’s daughter’s old bedroom(!). But realizing that even she may intend to use him, he has done, is doing worse…

2. Seducing - and failing - Melanie Isaacs.

Cheap, insincere, pointless really without any connection.

1. Losing the bliss of coupling with Soraya

AI suggested Disgrace (and Stoner), based on some of my most successful reads, the theme of Tragic Lucidity I am currently highly involved in and the need to find a connection in the next title.

Lurie is in many ways nothing like me, but from Page 1, the tone is about right. Promoting

This place being South Africa

Rape

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlay and rather empty human soul.

Death

Castration