COWBOYS

Cowboy in Siberia. so what's a landowner's son doing in this place? The police arrested him for subversion. He was facing a firing squad when the Tsar pardoned Fodor. People will tell you that his doctor father (Christian) murdered one of his serfs among other excesses of emotional behavior. After Siberia, there was the army for four years Fodor (perhaps like Desmond) Fodor was unhappy). Freud would say he had a reaction formation. Fodor became a champion of the Tsar and the Orthodox Church ( just as Sayid followed Saddam when it fed his passions). But there were other passion- whores, drinking, gambling (remember Charlie, there are more vices than heroin). There was a conversion reaction. Fodor began to have those seizures (the divine disease of epilepsy) soon after his father died. You know about those. It is like somebody who loses the ability to walk, is locked in wheelchair. The trigger was the father. Fodor had a son; the gossip is that his son died of a seizure disorder. Some people think that the little boy (in this book) who dies is a representation of Fodor's son. Some people do not believe the boy in the novel has anything to do with Fodor's son. He dies at twice the age of Fodor's son. The boy in the book is about Ben's age. Do you remember? Sayid shot Ben. Some people that think Dostoyevsky thought his illness killed his son. ( Of course, the syntax is twisted. Can you draw a straight line?) You could say ( if you were poetic ) that evil within the father killed the son. Or you could think Fodor's father molded the man who was everyman. Yes, Fodor was also a man of many twists. But he had no kingdom, but he confronted many more perils than Odysseus. And they were inside himself. That reminds me of a story about two brothers. One thought that all men were evil. Fodor knew that. The other thought that he would find good persons somewhere if he tested enough people. These good people would redeem themselves. Fodor tried to believe this. However, there were too many temptations, too many memories of the few months when he was playing the nihilist, the rebel, playing He who denies (Goethe's term for the devil). Power, having the power to erase God, there's the only real pleasure. Ask Ben Linus or Charles Widmore or MiB or Jacob. They will tell you. 16 minutes ago by Past recaptured
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