Comments | foolcat: And, in the end

foolcat

And, in the end

Dec 09, 2003 09:45

They never explain it to you. All the stories and their happy endings. They always end much too soon. Just when the real work is beginning. You see it all around. No plan for what to do when the good fight is won. When the great goal you've striven for for years is achieved. The giant is slain, Rumpelstiltskin gets his foot trapped in the ( Read more... )

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sharrainchains December 10 2003, 22:06:47 UTC

Have you ever seen "Into the Woods?" It takes the protagonists of several fairy tales to Ever After - and beyond.

Some of the Jack Chalker series take the heroes on and on past happy endings and complications to endless new complications. I feel so sorry for them (and can even identify with them at times): trapped in an anticlimactic life that sometimes seems to grow increasingly grotesque. Oh dear. I guess I am missing my son again.

So, maybe there are no endings - just different rounds like a labyrinth or a maze. Sometimes they seem pointless, but often they bring us around to new stages of meditation, growth, consciousness.

BTW, I have been wondering: why do they always fight crime?

Isn't it good, Norwiegan Wood. foolcat December 11 2003, 20:41:56 UTC

Not only do I know the play, it's one of my HPs favorites.
He considers seeing it a mandatory lesson for training.
And Jack Chalker is onr of my HPS's fave authors.
Your reply also reminds me of the old Kinks song 'Back Where We Started'.I never claimed the ideas in my little head were new, just occaisionally entertaining and useful.
And they fight crime because if the didn't, Crime would have nobody to fight. Thus endign Thursdaqy night television, and Wednesday night television , and most of Tuesday. Civilization as we know it would end.There would be riots in the streets, fires would break out, Cats and Dogs living together....

Re: Isn't it good, Norwiegan Wood. sharrainchains December 12 2003, 10:32:42 UTC

Your HP and I sound like we share many tastes! I don't know the Kinks song you mention, but I will take a look for it (or at least the lyrics) this weekend. Abd I wasn't trying to say that your ideas were derivative or cliched - mine aren't new either (I know!)- just maybe connecting dots... No matter how crazy my social life is, it's still easy for me to to feel isolated in my feelings and experiences, so I sometimes connect through the books, movies, songs that have touched me (they also provide wonderful easy means of communicating in symbol/icon form).

Thank you for explaining why they always fight crime. Now: why do they always do it on your LJ posts?