![]() ![]() Thoughts of past or future perpetration haunt the three men, which is not the case with Merriweather Lewis. Before he confronts Clark in issue 45, York likewise has a recurring nightmare in which he is ordered by his captains to murder Sacagawea’s child. ![]() Later, in Volume 5: Mnemophobia & Chronophobia, everyone except Lewis is affected by a strange fog that makes them see the embodiments of their worst nightmares: Clark sees a Native American warrior, for instance, while Collins sees Dawhog, the Fezron friend that he had murdered. This is further alluded to through dreams and nightmares: during their encounter with the plant monster, as I’ve earlier noted, Lewis dreams of sexual intercourse, while Clark-his face marked by distress-dreams of the Native Americans he has murdered. Unlike Clark, who understands himself as a killer, deserving of revenge by those he has slain, Lewis has an almost sociopathic approach to perpetration: he understands an action to be morally questionable-“a dirty bit of business,” as he describes the Fezron massacre-but doesn’t appear to feel any profound regret over it. ![]() ![]() While Lewis is aware of the questionable morality of their mission-see for example his journey entries after the Fezron massacre-he is not haunted by it, nor by his past actions in the American Indian Wars. ![]()
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