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SluttyStepDad t1_j714gzu wrote

Maybe I’m reading into it too much but if your “father” is not long for this world (by his own admission), why does he care what happens to the woods or the world or anything for that matter? Why not crawl off and drink himself to death in some hole rather than trying to arrest the changes happening in the mortal world?

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Thr33Littl3Monk3ys t1_j7eoyhv wrote

Because he think he's more important than he actually is, and wants to effect some Great Change in the world before he passes, as any kind of legacy. It's the same reason he went after a woman who was above him, better than him, but didn't share his faith: he had to try to change and reshape her.

That's what he's trying to do now: make any kind of mark on the world before he's no longer in it.

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