Thursday, December 3, 2009

Creating His Own Wise Blood

Enoch Emery claims that he has wise blood, a sort of feeling or something that tells him or lets him know when something is about to happen and such. His wise blood tells him that he is going to find the person that day to who he can show the little mummy thing to. And sure enough, Hazel Motes comes on by and that is the answer that the wise blood was giving him. But it could simply be that Enoch wanted it to be that day and that anyone he recognized he would take to be that person, such as Haze. But we can't really say this or that about the wise blood at that point. However, there is one big problem with the wise blood of Enoch which is that it told him something huge, something big, something that would make him important would come out of him giving the little mummy thing to Haze for his new Jesus. The problem comes in when the mummy is just tossed around and thrown out. Nothing comes out of what the wise blood says, so is the wise blood really wise, is it dumb, or is it simply non-existent? But I guess, I'm just wondering why does he think he has wise blood? In the past there must have been things like the day at the zoo when Hazel Motes came to the zoo just when Enoch was expecting someone to come. But it doesn't have to be anything supernatural. It could be just that the other days when Enoch was really wanting to show somebody and nobody came, he just shrugged it off and forgot it. Or maybe he finally really wanted to show somebody because he finally had someone to show it to and it just so happened when he was itching to show it and had Hazel in his mind, that Hazel did come and credit was given to the wise blood. Similar things might have happened in the past. He subconsciously creates situations that are likely to happen, but he consciously doesn't realize it, and when the situations come to pass, credit is given to his wise blood. Enoch may have always thought, even if just as a small, reoccurring though, that if he was to give someone the mummy, that he would naturally be rewarded. This thought slowly grew in the back of his mind, getting bigger and bigger, and when he finally had someone to give it to, his subconscious thought came to his mind, he expected to recieve a reward, but by this time the reward had grown to an uplifting of himself to some great importance, not even directly by the man he gave it to, but by just happening, and again giving credit to the wise blood.

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