“I will not
be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, de-briefed, or numbered. My life
is my own.”
{The Prisoner - Arrival}
Well by the time
of the end of ‘Arrival’ the Prisoner has been all those things on his list.
What’s more his life is no longer his own, because he is a prisoner in what is
basically a detention centre. His life is there’s, and there’s no-one in the world
{The Village} to help him. What’s more I shouldn’t think ZM73’s life was his
own in his former life, working for British Intelligence. He would be at their
beck and call any time of day or night. Plus he wouldn’t have been able to tell
anyone about it because he would have had to sign the Official Secrets Act.
It’s surprising that his fiancée Janet Portland knew about the work he did.
Although working for Sir Charles Portland’s department, I don’t suppose it
could be kept a secret from her. I mean it’s quite possible that ZM73 {for want
of a better name} could be away for a year, even longer, doing what? And what
price his life being his own for all that length of time? Perhaps he could be
away working undercover, in the persona of someone else, again where is his own
life if he’s working as someone else? “My life is my own.” I mean what kind of
statement is that to go and make? You life is never your own. We all belong to
someone, unless one is an orphan and completely unattached to anyone in the
World. But ZM73 was engaged to be married. And as it was, he was married to the
department, until something went wrong and caused him to throw his life away by
resigning his job. I couldn’t see Sir Charles Portland wanting anything further
to do with ZM73 after that, let alone allowing him to marry his daughter!
Be seeing you
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