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Lonely, bottomless loneliness
Ethel 2022-03-26 09:01:05
I've seen the American version of George Clooney's "Flying into Space" before, it's just as long and weird. The original work of the old tower has further deepened the bottomless loneliness in the human heart. Humans are animals that rely on memory to survive, and “replicas” that throw away memories, such as visitors to Solaris, are not qualified to be called humans. But to a lonely, longing to be loved, how important is it that the "replica" is not a person? Love will always triumph over everything.
Extended Reading
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Dr. Snaut: Don't tell me you haven't tried a rope or a hammer. Did you happen to throw the inkwell like Luther? No?
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Kris Kelvin: What was that?
Dr. Snaut: I don't know. Then again, we've managed to determine a few things. Who was it?
Kris Kelvin: She died 10 years ago.
Dr. Snaut: What you saw was the materialization of your conception of her. What was her name?
Kris Kelvin: Hari.
Dr. Snaut: Everything began after we started experimenting with radiation. Wehit the Ocean's surface with strong X-ray beams. But it - incidentally, consider yourself lucky. After all, she's part of your past. What if it had been something you had never seen before, but something you had thought or imagined?
Kris Kelvin: I don't understand.
Dr. Snaut: Evidently the Ocean responded to our heavy radiation with something else. It probed our minds and extracted something like islands of memory.