CHAPTER 9 (SPOILERS) - what is Keynes' precipice?
IF YOU HAVE NOT LISTENED TO THE END OF CHAPTER 9 THIS POST MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.
Rowley asked early on as to whether Keynes is good or bad, and seems to think he was right in his prediction that Keynes might be evil after listening to Chapter 9 (see his comment here).
So, clearly with the hints in Chapter 8, and his actions in Chapter 9, there is certainly some darkness brewing inside of Keynes. It is, as with everything else right now, connected to his past, and a number of clues have already been exposed over the story thus far - hinted at in Chapter 1 (at the graveside), and one important clue in Chapter 2 (at the graveside again). In Chapters 8 & 9, Keynes feels he has returned to the edge of a precipice and is but one step away from descending to a place he never should have visited the first time around.
So... what do you think is the nature of Keynes past experience that is chasing at his heels and threatening to lead him once again down some very dark paths..?
Help to support TableRappers
by buying from Amazon through this widget:
The Darkness of Keynes
Keynes does seem to flip from hero to bad-ass very quickly, doesn't he? But, I'm wondering what he did with the Hawkins brothers... did he ask them to get them to body-snatch, like Burke and Hare, so he could understand the human body more...?
The only thing i can think of (and am probably wrong) is that when his wife died, Keynes didn't accepted. He went to mediums to speak to her, to find that he couldn't talk to her. Maybe his views of God, death, the Afterlife, his whole view of life changed and he began bitter and angry because of it...
That shows you're paying attention!
I am obviously not going to give too much away here, but the Burke and Hare scenario is a good suggestion and an entirely logical and plausible connection to make, what with Keynes' involvement in pathology.
Views on God, death, etc? Yes, they are most certainly a very significant element of what he is going through (and has gone through), and those feelings most certainly underpin his attitudes towards spiritualism in general.