IN response to the posts of Lemon mousse. My thankyou button often goes into intertia, but I do want to record my thanks for your posts.
Neither Roux, nor Nel nor Oscar have any control or omnipotence over physics.. no one can change the way bullets travel, or sound travels, or what level certain sounds can reach.. physics, like gravity , or time, (elapsed and/or forward ) sun rising in the east, etc.. all these things are impartial, completely indifferent to the human condition. They take no sides, they infer no judgment, they simply are.
Take the process of time, for example..
at that infinitively split sliver of time, where Oscar has his finger on the trigger, its at the very point of no return.. at this point, physics says, definitively, that Oscar can be one of only two things. He can be a man in the zone to be a murderer, or he can actually , and consequently be a murderer .
He pulls the trigger.. the nth moment he does this, for Oscar, time has to be replayed backwards.. he has to arrange time in a sequence that relieves him of the burden of the particular consequence that physics decrees will ensue.. that bullet, and subsequent bullets are impartial to Oscar, and Reeva . The path those bullets follow, obeying without access to the suspension of physics , time, gravity, are totally indifferent to Oscars situation, and Reeva's.. they just do and be.
Oscar has no control or mastery over the inevitable sound they make, how far that sound travels and what sound that will impact on his ear or anyone elses... his only area of control is the decision to pull the trigger over the fulcrum of to fire.. or not to fire.
Once he's fired it, he has to play time backwards to bring himself forwards to the moment of that decision. To avoid or defer the consequences he has no choice but to attempt to suspend time from that moment, wind it backwards to the beginning point ,and re work the sequence , including every peripheral factor , every single one to bring himself back to that split second decision.
but time doesn't suspend its self for anyone.. you, me, murderers,
Oscar is as subject to these inhibitors as every other person thing and matter on this earth.
While Oscar is replaying elapsed time backwards, and then working it forwards, time, like it inconveniently does, with out exception, goes forward on its relentless path for everything else. Everything. .
People wake up to provoking sounds. People react to the sounds that reach them, as time and physics continues on, regardless. They make judgments about these sounds, and react. Reeva begins her inevitable process of dying. The Black Talon bullets , unable to resist gravity and time and physics expend their energy and , their designed job over, enter into the law of inertia. Reeva herself is traversing the unstoppable journey from energy depleted to intertia.
For Oscar. ..his process is to reconcile the progression of time, and physics before pulling the trigger, 4 times, and the progression of time and physics after pulling the trigger 4 times.
From his statements ( not testimony , he has taken no affirmation, he hasn't been subjected to x-examination, ) he hasn't achieved this reconciliation into the area of me assigning credibility. Except in one particular. He states he shot her, he killed her. I don't disagree with that claim.
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