Reply To: What is the “malady” in The Grey Wolf? What are the characters waiting for?
The malady is distrust and looking for certainty of someone/something in which to place that trust. “One of us, thought Lacoste. There were few more dangerous phrases. Partly because it held truth. There were teams, tribes, families, companies. Friends. Us. But it was rarely just a description of a group. There was, about it, a distinction. ‘Us’ implies there was a ‘Them.’ And ‘Us’ was better than ‘Them.'” The division that distrust causes to divide and conquer. This is what is so scary about the United States now.
