09-10-2012, 03:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2012, 04:55 PM by Charles Drago.)
My problem is not with Mr. Schotz's intentions, but rather with his limited literary gifts.
The central conceit of this mini-drama, I would submit, is that "Dulles" is so skilled in the dark arts of deception that he can convince "JFK" to indict and convict himself of capital offenses and apologize to his own murderer for the transgressions that brought about a well-deserved act of regicide.
The dramatic argument that "Dulles" makes to "JFK" is, in condensed form, the real argument used to convince some Facilitators and accessories-after-the-fact that the violent removal of the president was a necessary, patriotic, righteous act.
The drama breaks down at the point when the dramatist asks us to suspend our disbelief and accept that "JFK" would agree with the argument for self-implication and offer his apology to "Dulles."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy as unenlightened, naive spirit?
A better writer might have convinced us that forgiveness of the murderer by the murdered is the ultimate expression of spiritual enlightenment, and that "JFK" was doing to his tormentor exactly what the latter was attempting -- and failing -- to do to him.
Not Mr. Schotz.
The central conceit of this mini-drama, I would submit, is that "Dulles" is so skilled in the dark arts of deception that he can convince "JFK" to indict and convict himself of capital offenses and apologize to his own murderer for the transgressions that brought about a well-deserved act of regicide.
The dramatic argument that "Dulles" makes to "JFK" is, in condensed form, the real argument used to convince some Facilitators and accessories-after-the-fact that the violent removal of the president was a necessary, patriotic, righteous act.
The drama breaks down at the point when the dramatist asks us to suspend our disbelief and accept that "JFK" would agree with the argument for self-implication and offer his apology to "Dulles."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy as unenlightened, naive spirit?
A better writer might have convinced us that forgiveness of the murderer by the murdered is the ultimate expression of spiritual enlightenment, and that "JFK" was doing to his tormentor exactly what the latter was attempting -- and failing -- to do to him.
Not Mr. Schotz.