once pristine

the outcast lone rider is not necessarily neurotic, he is different, and committed to his difference, and committed to a higher ideal. compromise with conformity is not possible, or is useless . people help the outcast along the way, or befriend him, he is likable and his singlemindedness appeals to a yearning to be washed of the equivocalness . his outcastedness makes him tough and able . the code is pure, so the unequivocality of his nature causes unswerving adherence to his code . does this exempt him from certain moral standards of cleanliness that non outcasts, upstanding members of the clan, conformists, and naturally abiding citizens must abide? does god forgive the outcast, the artist, this messiness? the artists job is to create beauty, in that sense he is a servant of god’s message and so is afforded a measure of latitude in terms of adherence to the code of the culture in which he is forced to live . perhaps his code is a higher code . perhaps the lenience is recompense for the suffering required