Reality is more dead than death, and a literary salvation

Kasey 2022-12-19 13:17:13

1. In the real world, it is relatively easy to influence the general direction of movement of an object, and it is not difficult to act as a disaster star or legally kill others (possibility of life) with mental violence. People in the real world are inherently difficult to wash, and several specific excitement and loss can make the concept collapse again and again, and let the rest of their lives be buried in the square-inch graveyard of lessons learned.

Therefore, each person's expectations and expectations for the behavior of others/groups will also be limited, which further collapses the individual's imagination of his own value (self-value is largely related to the world and how much others can be influenced and changed by him).

When a person is old and dying, it is just like the final view of the protagonist in the movie on his life: "Broken, ridiculous, but it will be repeated again. This is also a kind of perfection." Therefore, the decline of the value of life with age is not Linear, in the end stage, not only the physical strength is poor, but also the self-suffocation of subjective cognition is superimposed. At the end, it tends to use "the only fate/zero possibility" to obtain rest.

2. Lines underlined: "Never have you been so close to your own death as you are today!"

3. I also intend to die like the protagonist, to travel alone to finish the last journey, to die with the gesture of a prodigal son who will never return, to refuse funerals and mourning, to erase the ceremony from reality, and to confuse sadness into In the infinite imagination of the distant sky (perhaps, he has lived for many years, and many stories have happened) so without a full stop, it seems to be an open ending, which is the greatest tenderness and romance left to the world for literature professors.

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The Professor quotes

  • Claire: The person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last. Love is not an end. It's a process through which one person attempts to know another.

    [pause]

    Claire: That's it.

    Richard: And, in a word?

    Claire: In TWO words, deceptively simple.

  • Peter: Why are you wearing sunglasses?

    Richard: I have cancer. I'm supposed to wear sunglasses in unusual places.