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Date Posted: 06:57:08 03/07/08 Fri
Author: Kiernan
Subject: Without a Model....

On page 56 of "I See Satan Fall Like Lightening," Girard discusses the importance of the first stone in the process of stoning. His arguments here, however, confused me. He says that "Why is it the most difficult one to throw? Because it is the only one without a model (56)." Yet, according to Girard's theory, humans are fundamentally imitative; we do not have 'original' acts. So where is the model/mediator in this dynamic? I was thinking about the fact that Apollonius sort of tries to create a verbal mediator for them by ordering them to kill the beggar and painting them as the arbiters of the justice of god, but I'm not sure that that works, and Girard's text certainly doesn't say that....

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