“Lettuce is a friend with a light taste”

Chesley 2022-11-14 03:08:06

Delphine, from the Latin Delphina, means "woman from the Temple of Delphi". The Temple of Delphi is famous for the prophecies of the priestess Pythia. In a state of ecstasy, Pythia is possessed by the god Apollo and speaks his oracles/prophecies, revealing the fate of the city-state or individual.

The heroine's experience is a story of waiting for fate, hearing the prophecy and fulfilling the prophecy. The playing cards by the sea were an omen, and on the same day she heard a prophecy about the green light, a prophecy about the sun - if the last light and shadow of the sun was set to be green, you would recognize your destiny and do it. make a decision. All of this coincides with the original meaning of the name Delphine, and the green light of the sun corresponds to the prophecy of the sun god Apollo.

The story is very simple, and the dialogue is full of everyday sense. Under the ordinary dialogue, there are undercurrents of uneasy mood and dramatic loneliness. "I'm not sad... I'm utterly bored," she said, but no amount of words and babble was as informative as her wriggling of her hands, her hair, and her swaying. Days roll by with a green background. Loneliness, joy and boredom are intertwined, culminating in the weeping of seaside greenery. I did not consciously substitute it from the beginning, and a feeling of anxiety slowly rose. She was walking the streets of Paris, and I tried to remember what little park this was; she and her friends talked about trivia and thoughts, and I wondered if there was a subway station I passed by near the restaurant: a big "Metro" logo. She was restless in the four-person scene trying to escape, and my soul was already out of my body.

I like the babble in it, the silence in it, the tiny twists and turns in fiction, and the green light that's been absent. I have been searching for those specious scenes in Paris in my memory, trying to escape from those incomprehensible actions, until I saw a peaceful sunset at an unremarkable station and an unknown seaside.

"Lettuce is a friend and has a light taste."

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  • Delphine: [crying about her problems] I'm forgetting them. I didn't think of them. You talk of showing things... I don't know, I don't have anything. If I had something to show, people would see it, that's all!

  • Delphine: You talk of showing things... I don't know, I don't have anything. Things aren't obvious to me. I'm not normal, like you. When I make an effort I try to listen, to talk to people. I listen, I watch what's going on. If people don't come to me it's because I'm worthless and... if I had something to show, people would see it, that's all.