![]() ![]() His conscious will perhaps but it is the unconscious Will that is the author of the play. The unconscious does do reasoning, however, if of a different and superior kind. ![]() Logic is a prerogative of conscious thinking. The unconscious mind knows nothing of logic, he says. Murdoch’s favourite word to describe the human condition occurs. The friend’s seducing wife asks if he thinks women of her age have an urge. The main character quotes King Lear on being tormented by his friend’s wife that his ex-wife will tell his friend how awful the marriage was. He shares a mannerism with his author of duplicating ‘etc’ when the first means ‘and all the rest’ already. In response to the daughter’s asking if he thought all women at a certain age feel the urge to commit adultery, he simply says no. He says of his friend he was trying to take over the world by emptying himself over it like scented bath water. I laughed at his and his author friend’s groaning at the latter’s daughter’s saying she’s decided to be a writer. His isn’t capable of that so far as he can know. ![]() He claims reportage isn’t art, though it can be if the reporter’s artistic will has set up what is then reported. He cites Kierkegaard as saying a virtuous man looks like an inspector of taxes, as he himself was. In her play of The Black Prince, Murdoch uses the good theatrical device of the soliloquy in place of the principal character’s narration. ![]()
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