Kizz
April 9, 2006 at 7:13 pm
I haven’t been reading at all, totally cribbing off everyone else. But I do have a sort of related issue to bring up.
SPOILER ALERT – NIP/TUCK SEASON 2
There’s a wonderful episode where the symbolic surgery of the week is an adult pair of conjoined twins being separated because one of them has cancer and the other one is too weak to endure the chemo. So, long story short, the weak one dies during the separation and the mother decides not to inform the docs of the DNR the twins signed (I don’t want to live if my twin doesn’t) but it becomes clear that the “surviving” twin is spiritually dead and will only survive as a vegetable to be studied. So the mother is going to honor the DNR, pull the plugs and let her other daughter die. She says to the doctor, “After I do this will you put them back together, the way God meant them to be?” And that is how they are buried.
“The way God meant them to be.”
Which is, I think, at the crux of the whole Frankenstein thing. Did God mean for the beings that end up becoming the creature to stay dead and as they were? At what point does what God meant for Victor’s brain to be become superseded by what God meant for the people upon whom Victor develops his intelligence?
Which got me to thinking about how, in the name of God, humans have been trying to thwart “what God meant them to be” for time out of mind. The Greeks would put twins out on a hillside to die of exposure because twins were an abomination against the gods. Yeah? Then how the hell did they get down here in the first place? In theory God gave us the technology for abortion and yet, in the name of God, the entire country of El Salvador has outlawed it. (See: Forensic Vagina Inspectors – I am not kidding.)
So, those are my thoughts of late on the subject.
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