From: Jasper
Date: 1/12/01
Time: 1:26:18 PM
The Fuhrman collection (movies linked to something significant in Fuhrman?s personal or professional history) is crawling with incest links, particularly between siblings and mothers and sons. There are numerous references to older men and younger women and to girls who were about Sydney?s age at the time of the killing but none of them could be called incest links. You?ll see most of what I fond on that in the last three or four chapters that I put up on The Smoking Gun 2. I?ve been trying to wrap that up as well as the interracial sex and the oral sex connections for at least that far back, but that?s where the action seems to be.
I should have paid more attention to Freud and realized that?s where the action would be.
Adam and Eve gets us to basics. Adam and Eve had two male children, Cain and Able. When Cain killed Able, they had another son. In fact, they hand a lot of sons. Cain went somewhere and took a wife (you tell me where she came from) and they had children. It?s not clear to me if all of Adam and Eve?s sons "took wives" but they sure had a bunch of kids.
If you?re a white racist and you believe that blacks were descended from Cain, that doesn?t leave you much room to maneuver as far a incest is concerned. If you?re a white racist who has only two initials, and those two are MF, it sorta puts you in a bind. All of this is in The Smoking Gun 2. It?s still remarkable, don?t you think, that I would see all of that and miss the racist connection to "the mark of Cain"? There is more of it in the chapter I just finished (I?ll try to put it up this weekend) and the one I?m working on now. But the religious angle is also intriguing.
The movies are full of religious icons, mostly Jewish and Catholic (for reasons that don?t necessarily have to do with religion). The Fuhraman collection has its share. But it seems to have more than its share of references to Christmas themes, ghost themes, resurrection themes and Satanic themes. He says nothing in his book about his religious upbringing or his religious affiliations but he makes a point of railing against Johnnie Cochrane for his use of religious rhetoric to influence the "black" jury because of the power of the Church in "The black community." I?d like to see how all of this connects.
Maybe religion is the answer.
Maybe it?s sex.
What do you think? --Jasper