From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 57 - The Displaced Person

All their eyes came together in one moment and froze them in collusion for ever…no community is formed.
Mrs. Macintyre felt she was in some foreign country where the people bent over the body were natives.

This is the final excerpt from the Crucial Choice series. Both CD and MP3 versions of the complete 'Crucial Choice' series will be available soon from the Cornerstone Forum webstore.

I will be begin posting a new series of excerpts from Gil Bailie's tape archives in the coming days.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 56 - The Displaced Person

The sacrificial dénouement…the world recedes from the little circle around Mr. Guizak

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 55 - The Displaced Person

Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
Turning grief into grievance.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 54 - The Displaced Person

Mr. Shortly finds his voice.
The crisis of distinctions

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 53 - The Displaced Person

The sacrificial event as an act of God.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 52 - The Displaced Person

Mrs. Mcintyre tries to let Mr. Guizac go

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 51 - The Displaced Person

Mr. Shortly, “I’m not a violent man, but…”
All victimizers must pose as either a victim or the defender of victims

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 50 - The Displaced Person

Remembering all the arguments…myth is in trouble when we have to remember the arguments to support it.
The priest and the Judge…the Church speaks a truth capable of reinterpretation, but the Judge’s safe is locked but empty.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 49 - The Displaced Person

Mrs. McIntyre, “As far as I’m concerned Christ was just another DP…”

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 48 - The Displaced Person

Meister Eckhart: “We must learn to act without motivation…”

The return of Mr. Shortly. He recalls his experience in the ‘first world’s war’…

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 47 - The Displaced Person

Reprise of the priest and the peacock…”Christ will come like that!”

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 46 - The Displaced Person

Stage 2: Converting a human being into a vermin

But the priest wants to talk about purgatory…the place where one rids oneself of mimetic reflexes.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 45 - The Displaced Person

“They’re all the same…whether they come from Poland or Tennessee”

Stage 1: The narrowing of her gaze on the diminishing figure…as if looking through a gun sight.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 44 - The Displaced Person

A detour into the New Testament: in the Gospel of Matthew (ch 13:41) Jesus says: "The Son of Man will send his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that scandalize and all those who do evil”

Matthew 18: "Scandalizing must occur, but alas for the person who causes scandal... "

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 43 - The Displaced Person

The Judge’s office continued…the ‘judgment world'.

Mr. Guizac's family comes from the other side of the apocalypse.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 42 - The Displaced Person

The Judge’s office…at the center of it is a safe that is locked but empty

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 41 - The Displaced Person

Mrs. MacIntyre and the 'Judge', her late husband...the influence of one’s first teacher.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 40 - The Displaced Person

“They’re all the same…”

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 39 - The Displaced Person

Some horrible transgression is about to be perpetrated on the community….
The fundamental (last) taboo has been broken.

From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 38 - The Displaced Person

A hand raised clutching nothing…
Mrs. Shortly had been displaced from all that belonged to her.
The power of the soap opera…the mimetic vortex.
At her death Mrs. Shortly has on her face a look of astonishment as she seems to contemplate for the first time the tremendous frontiers of her true country.
The sacrament of confirmation: a vaccine against the mimetic entanglements.
If we believe our existence derives its legitimacy from the social order we are unwittingly creating the sacrificial setting.