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Submitted by oolyps on Mon, 04/02/2007 - 11:27pm.
Our dearest Olyites,
» We come to you seeking advice. We have a cat. His name is "Roger." He's a problem yet sometimes lovable cat. As his first owner locked him in a closet during nights, we knew he came to us with some baggage; however, four years later we can't take it anymore. We want you to know that this decision does not come lightly. Roger used to be an aggressive and violent cat (with anyone not "Deborah"). In a previous last ditch effort to save him from euthanasia we had his front paws declawed (something we had both previously forsworn). For the past several months now Roger has been peeing throughout our Apartment and his behavior has only been escalating. We have a toddler who spends a lot of time on the floor. Nothing we try has worked and we literally cannot afford to continue trying to "fix" him. One effect of his declawed state is that Roger is now a much more social and agreeable cat. He is excellent with our daughter. We are genuinely sad that we cannot continue to keep him. Roger is a high maintenance cat who requires very expensive cat food in order to keep his skin from flaking off entirely. The reason for us writing this is that neither of us could in good conscience euthanize Roger without first seeking your council. Does anybody have any suggestions (read: a home) for Roger? Sincerely.
Submitted by Summerisle on Mon, 04/02/2007 - 11:24pm.
John Magyar filling in for Summerisle.
"I think death will be the first real thing that has happened to you" The story on its surface is simple enough: newly minted Scottish doctor, fresh faced, in his early twenties, bored, facing a stultifying personal life at home, wants to get out, see the world, get adventure. He spins a globe and lands on Uganda and signs up with a health mission. The day he gets there the coup bringing Idi Amin to power happens. Because of some chance encounters he gets into Amin's confidence, becomes his personal physician, parties in Entebbe at the presidential compound, screws African women, becomes complicit in Amin's crimes, tries to poison him, is captured, tortured, and then miraculously escapes. What the film is actually about is the seduction of power, and in that sense is comparable to Istvan Szabo's film "Mephisto", starring Karl Maria Brandauer. In Mephisto, an actor who got his start in workers' theatre in Weimar Germany becomes increasingly implicated in the Nazi regime as an artist due to the personal interest that Goering shows to his role in the stage production of "Faust", gradually sacrificing his principles and his dignity in order to retain his position at the top of Hitler's Germany. Nicholas Gallagher, on the other hand, doesn't really start with any principles. instead, he has a naive belief in the righteousness of Amin and doesn't really show any interest in the social or political reality that surrounds him. What happens instead is that the powerlessness of his role as Amin's advisor is contrasted to him personally with the degeneration of the country and when he tries to influence events through his relationship with Amin is reminded of just what an outsider he is, how he really can't say anything based on any sort of a moral ground because he is in fact living in a white man's fantasy about living the good life at the expense of Africans.
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