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[youschuldblame]

[in your favourite spot/chair. what do?]

[ooc: post could be used for anyone's counseling shenanigans, but I'll be around with all of mine until I fall asleep! my list is here. EDIT: passing out now! I'll pick up later ♥]

Comments

[goddamnemperor]

Is this teaching you something you don't already know?

[drfeelgold]

What did you like about it?

[goddamnemperor]

Let good men, for good deeds, covet good fame,
Since place and riches oft are bribes of shame;
Sometimes the devil doth preach.

I suppose you could say it doesn't pull back its punches.

[drfeelgold]

A lot of stories do seem to spend a lot of time focusing on having a 'happy ending', even though they're not really endings or sometimes even approaching a realistic conclusion at all. Not that it's always a bad thing to want that, I think. But it can be pretty silly.

Did anyone manage to get what they wanted in the end?

[goddamnemperor]

I never really understood the human condition to write tragedy and understand it. It always escaped me.

Did they? I wonder. It's an open question.

[drfeelgold]

I think some people see it as some kind of reference point, that while it may not completely reflect their own misfortunes in life, it's something that might be able to help them better understand the things have happened to them. To offer them a chance for clarity, as they try to move forward.

And other people I guess just... like to read about sad things.

Was it an open ending?

[goddamnemperor]

No play has an open ending. Not that I know of.

[drfeelgold]

Maybe that's just something that happens in stories then. Again, literature's not really one of my strong subjects.

I guess what I meant was, did it end in a way that left the audience able to interpret how they wanted it to end? Was it on a sad note, or in a way that spoke to the idea that there was potential things could resolve themselves in a happier way? Did anyone escape more or less unscathed? Or did they all just die in the end, like in Hamlet?

[goddamnemperor]

Oh, that. Everyone died.

[drfeelgold]

Well then, there you go.

Do you think they thought it was worth it in the end?

[goddamnemperor]

I have no opinions on literature.

[drfeelgold]

Any particular reason why not?

[goddamnemperor]

[saying everyone who writes literature are liars and should burn probably isn't the right answer]

I've lived many lives. Literature falls short to my experiences.

[drfeelgold]

[ maybe but it would be an opinion! ]

I imagine there are many things that do. So you... don't get any pleasure from it then?

[goddamnemperor]

If I look into my past selves, I might be able to gleam emotional opinions.

[drfeelgold]

But not in your current self?