HIS69-129 The Hole Thing
The Hole Thing
HIS69
HIS69-129
Larry Stoner
(HIS69129)
$1.95
FOREWORD
Self deception is the ultimate destructive. Nothing in man’s technology, past, present, even future, can come close to that devastation we can create within ourselves. No acid or lye can eat away body or soul as completely or effectively as refusal to face the truth of one’s life.
There may be times in one’s life when it is acceptable to lie to others, in the form of tact or diplomacy, to protect feeling, to avoid conflict, even in some cases to live what appears to be a lie, if that appearance is only surface deep. When one’s illusions become delusions, life is dangerous, the best thrown away, discarded carelessly and thoughtlessly.
Life is short. Living a lie shortens it. No happiness nor contentment can be found in such charade. Even in those times and places when one is forced to dissemble, for whatever reason, one’s own truths must be held fast.
Paul Winston, protagonist in this story, is one of those unfortunates who would have had it both ways. Wanting to be what he thought was expected of him, refusing to face and accept his own values, he spun a web of such confusion and unbearable duality about himself, that he could have been destroyed by none but himself.
Useless, purposeless lies serve no function but the creation and regeneration of guilt and fear. Paul Winston’s trial-by-fire is whether or not he has the strength and/or courage to realize that simple truth. Can he discard the ready-made pattern by which he tries to live, thereby freeing himself to be himself, to live the life that is simply and uniquely his?
A facade is sometimes required to allow one to live. The limits and heights of that facade must never be lost sight of, nor allowed to creep beyond the bounds of necessity, never incur into the depths of reality and self-awareness, to create delusions from which it is sometimes impossible to retreat.
Contentment with one’s self can come only with awareness of limitations, boundaries of self, and chronic consciousness of the differences between those things we are and those things that others choose to see in us. This is Paul’s lesson to be learned. Can he accept it?
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