Word: kees
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...down in the Pacific and finds himself on a perfect gem of a desert island. Four kinds of fruit. Coconut milk. Plenty of wild potatoes. Quite edible sea birds and their eggs. A made-to-order fresh-water pool. Even one fellow inhabitant-a sort of man Friday named Kee. Why, Robinson Crusoe would have been down on his knees, offering up one of his manly prayers of thanksgiving to Providence...
Finally Greg stands stripped down, physically and spiritually naked. Humiliated in body and spirit, he takes out his self-contempt on Kee-the nagging mirror of his own human weakness-and kills him. Thus the log that began as a military record ends as a near-mad confession, a wild wail addressed to the Rescue God ("We cannot save ourselves...
From the beginning, the helpful Kee has rather obviously been the key to Greg's survival. Does Flynn intend to reassert sadly that man seems destined to slay his saviors? Or is he bypassing salvation theology altogether and desperately endorsing an existential wager? "Do you ever think," Greg scrawls at the last, "that this life is madness, that this world is a prison, and that if you gave up hope you would be free...
...still," Merilee told Sam and Alyosha, "if I could get my hands on a kee somewhere and take it up north to sell, do you realize what we could clear? We may be on emergency rations, but up there the folk must be-whushl" It made them shiver to consider...