Many years later, in the process of applying for UCCS Trauma Psychology, I accidentally read a Book Chapter ending written by PI, only to find that I didn't really understand the "mistakes in the stars" at that time, and the proposition it wanted to torture:
… the characters oscillate between belief and disbelief that there is something more than this life. They also oscillate between recognizing the ultimate futility of striving for symbolic immortality and the damage in this life they can do, and recognizing the irresistibility of the urge to make a permanent mark on the world. The thoughtful among us do likewise, and to use Green's metaphor, try to make the scar we leave a beautifying one.
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