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What Moses does, then, is stand up against folk wisdom,
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and he takes on for himself the power of a masterful creator.
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So, he does himself what he assigns to Henry.
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He becomes a creator, here, in language.
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The warning from the collective wisdom
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stands at odds with his individuality at that moment.
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It's at odds with his seizing that power for himself,
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and we will see as the novel goes on the repercussions of his having done
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that for the slaves in the slave quarters.
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It will have serious repercussions, some good, some bad, and here we're
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told that there is something in the future for him,
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too, that is a repercussion, that involves blood and his disabling.