Not a comment - finding the reality of existence is a false proposition

Mavis 2022-04-09 09:01:09

I can’t find my self-identity, I can’t feel the connection with reality, I’m driving my car, watching and taking pictures, taking countless photos, comparing the images and reality anxiously, talking about myself, listening to myself, and thinking that I can The person who communicates rambles about himself, isolated from the rest of the world. Trying hard to find and think, to grasp the real sense of existence, to find meaning, but it is always like being caught in the gray gap between pressing the shutter of the Polaroid and the image presented, and there is nothing.

Loli, who has to take over, seems to be blocking everything, and she must find a place to put her as soon as possible before she can continue to find her own answers. Getting more anxious after failing to find Loli's grandmother. "Do you think I like to walk around with a little girl, I have a lot of things to do." "You have something to do, but you just keep writing and drawing on paper!" You want to find the real sense of existence, but you isolate yourself from this sense of reality with blind pursuit and thinking. an infinite loop.

Until Loli, who was still in the police station, ran back to her side again, the reason was simply and rudely "things in the police station are too unpalatable", and finally laughed. Loli took out the photo of her grandmother's house, which made it seem easier to follow the picture. Unfortunately, when reality and photos match, the answer is still wrong. The direction is completely lost, and the purpose is finally discarded: "Let's go swimming". Finally, the noise of always asking for something is gone, and the aimless journey begins. But the search is coming to an end.

In fact, in the end, I'm not sure how the male protagonist made the decision, and whether there will be wondering every three to five, probably still, but at least, temporarily, I feel a little real.

Above, the result is only muttering about his various oversubstitutions and some brain supplements.

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Extended Reading

Alice in the Cities quotes

  • Publisher: You've been on the road for four weeks now and all you've got is a bunch of pictures. You were supposed to write something. I could have gotten pictures somewhere else. You were supposed to write about the American landscape. I've already gotten three telexes from the publisher in Munich and I look like an idiot. So what do I do now?

    Philip 'Phil' Winter: I'm not done yet. That's all.

  • Philip 'Phil' Winter: When you drive around America, something happens to you. The images you see change you.