[UA] The House of Renunciation

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 07:58 PM 12/09/1999 +0000, James McGraw wrote:
>So the House has no goal beyond change......
>But the individual agents do have goals, and those agents were "created" 
>by the House through the actions of other agents, according to their own 
>agendas, which were in turn moulded by the previous generation, and so 
>it goes on, until we come to the first ever agent of the House. What if the 
>first ever agent/victim of the House was chosen so he would take other 
>people to the House to reverse their personalities to a more desirable form 
>for him, and that they, in their "new, improved" personalities, took other 
>people to the House, etc.

Sure it works that way -- if the first guy in the House never changes his
mind or makes a stupid decision.  How many people can YOU say that about?

For some reason this is reminding me of two movies I saw in close
succession -- "Fargo" and "Muriel's Wedding."  Both of them struck me as
being very, VERY different from the standard Hollywood fare, and it took a
bit before I realized why.  Here it is: The characters in most movies,
plays and novels have one goal which drives them, and from which they
generally do not deviate.  The characters in those two movies just kind of
bumble along, flitting from this goal to that shiny object, motivated as
much (or more) by impulse than by plan.  

Now, UA characters tend to have a built in motivation in their obsession,
but generally I like to think of the people around them as these kinds of
aimless drifters. 

-G.
"You see, it may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but
it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts."
		-Quentin Crisp

http://www.thehungersite.com/index.html


_______________________________________________
UA mailing list
UA at lists.uchicago.edu
http://lists.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ua