How will I ever get out of this labyrinth? (2)
Simon Bolivar said those word shortly before
he died. They may have been his last, and I could see
why he was so lost. The country he had freed now
hated him and he was exiled. He was
in a labyrinth, and he was lost.
Then he died.
The term labyrinth is often used interchangeably with maze, but modern scholars of the subject use a stricter definition. For them, a maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage with choices of path and direction; while a single-path ("unicursal") labyrinth has only a single Eulerian path to the center. A labyrinth has an unambiguous through-route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.
It's really haunting to me, that quote.
Something about how it is posed. Maybe he was literally
in a maze? Maybe he was confused? Maybe he was tired?
I'm pretty sure he was lost mentally.
The way out wasn't death though, he probably didn't escape.
Why would someone wonder on their deathbed how they
were to escape if they were dying or about to die?
If they were trying to escape the hardship of life and about
to die then wouldn't it be obvious? They are dying!
In fact, if a labyrinth isn't hard to escape then
maybe he had really wanted to stay.
I think the the labyrinth is what he considered to be life.
He wasn't trying to escape so much as trying to
make sense of it and fix things.
He died wanting to go back and finish his life.
Shitty.
he died. They may have been his last, and I could see
why he was so lost. The country he had freed now
hated him and he was exiled. He was
in a labyrinth, and he was lost.
Then he died.
The term labyrinth is often used interchangeably with maze, but modern scholars of the subject use a stricter definition. For them, a maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage with choices of path and direction; while a single-path ("unicursal") labyrinth has only a single Eulerian path to the center. A labyrinth has an unambiguous through-route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.
It's really haunting to me, that quote.
Something about how it is posed. Maybe he was literally
in a maze? Maybe he was confused? Maybe he was tired?
I'm pretty sure he was lost mentally.
The way out wasn't death though, he probably didn't escape.
Why would someone wonder on their deathbed how they
were to escape if they were dying or about to die?
If they were trying to escape the hardship of life and about
to die then wouldn't it be obvious? They are dying!
In fact, if a labyrinth isn't hard to escape then
maybe he had really wanted to stay.
I think the the labyrinth is what he considered to be life.
He wasn't trying to escape so much as trying to
make sense of it and fix things.
He died wanting to go back and finish his life.
Shitty.