"a cure is a paternity," Like Cimourdain, who feels an even deeper affinity to Gauvain after saving his life (both times, actually!) The healing contribution is an indirect way of "parenting" someone—this "fatherly" relationship contrasts to Michelle’s motherhood, which is more physical and earthly. At least, according to this narrator.
"Hence there was a certain dread regarding him." We talked in the first part about how Tellmarch’s saving Lantenac actually didn’t come back to bite him, personally—he let the guy go free to slaughter people, but Tellmarch personally wasn’t then attacked by Lantenac, and in some sense this is kind of avoiding consequences. Here, we see that there is a price Tellmarch has to pay, not for any specific actions, but for being the kind of guy who saves people without question while everyone else is busy with civil war. He’s cut off from his social environment, and can’t even get any information to help Michelle.
"You did wrong to save me," Another take on the ends and means back-and-forth. According to this logic, he shouldn’t have tried to save her life for life’s sake—she’d be better off dead where she can protect her children.
"And how to make this mother’s all-absorbing idea listen to reason? Maternity is illogical; one cannot reason with it." Up till this point the rhetoric has actually been pretty believable! She’s motivated out of the deep need to protect her children, Tellmarch doesn’t really understand because he’s never been there. It’s just here that we go from "all-absorbing" to "illogical," because reason can’t interfere with the emotions.
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Date: 2014-06-12 04:14 pm (UTC)"Hence there was a certain dread regarding him." We talked in the first part about how Tellmarch’s saving Lantenac actually didn’t come back to bite him, personally—he let the guy go free to slaughter people, but Tellmarch personally wasn’t then attacked by Lantenac, and in some sense this is kind of avoiding consequences. Here, we see that there is a price Tellmarch has to pay, not for any specific actions, but for being the kind of guy who saves people without question while everyone else is busy with civil war. He’s cut off from his social environment, and can’t even get any information to help Michelle.
"You did wrong to save me," Another take on the ends and means back-and-forth. According to this logic, he shouldn’t have tried to save her life for life’s sake—she’d be better off dead where she can protect her children.
"And how to make this mother’s all-absorbing idea listen to reason? Maternity is illogical; one cannot reason with it." Up till this point the rhetoric has actually been pretty believable! She’s motivated out of the deep need to protect her children, Tellmarch doesn’t really understand because he’s never been there. It’s just here that we go from "all-absorbing" to "illogical," because reason can’t interfere with the emotions.