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GQ. ; c~ captors are clearly powerful and in their approval of. her rejection of the sane world they offer her their Protection from their own contagious, self devised delusions of persecution. . Teko's expiation of his guilt in not being black hy spitting upon " weak willed whiteness and Cinque's "loving" rationalization for abandonment of his children establish in this tape the paradox of the monstrousness of the group's hatred for themselves. All that they would seek to visit upon the enemy, is what they themselves feel that they deserve as punishment for their own sins. Fahizah’s pedagogical treatise on art and revolution, prophets and enemies epitomizes the intellectualization which dooms this group. Resentful over their combined burdens of guilt, incapable of the “decisiveness which could turn word into Cleansing action, they, like a Street corner gang of youths, finally "talk" themselves into the action they dread. Tape 6 | Cinque, in this communication, is at his complex best. Swaggering with the self-importance of his successfully executed bank robbery, he seeks to account for the Zebra killings and the apprehension of their perpetrators as part of a master plot to contain his omnipotence. Buoyed by the approval of his.small band of cohorts, his megalomania is boundless . The compulsiveness of his reportage regarding the action of the group fits. the pattern of over-control which motivates his actions. As in earlier tapes, Cinque seeks to establish the extent of his omniscience regarding