Eric Maas’s Reviews > Disgrace > Status Update

9. ‘Once you find things to do you won’t be so bored…’

…as long as I don’t have to become a better person. I am not prepared to be reformed. I want to go on being m myself.

That touched me more than should be expected. To have the mind to just say it like that…

8. Walking dogs, going to the market, Bev Shaw

Lurie is not a nice guy, not pleasant company.

They are not going to lead me to a higher life, and the reason is, there is no higher life. This is the only life there is. Which we share with animals. That’s the example that people like Bev try to set. That’s the example I try to follow. To share some of our h human privilege with the beasts.

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…