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there is a personal thesis in here somewhere
Tuesday, 16 July 2019 09:10 im compiling shit that has been sticking in my head for the past couple months because. well i don't know why but here it is
game of thrones | s3e6: the climb
V: i did what i did for the good of the realm.
L: the realm? do you know what the realm is? its the thousand blades of aegon's enemies. a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.
V: but what do we have once we abandon the lie? chaos. a gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.
L: chaos isn't a pit. chaos is a ladder. many who try to climb it fail , never to try again. the fall breaks them. and some are given the chance to climb, but they refuse. they cling to the realm, or gods, or love. illusions. only the ladder is real. the climb is all there is.
detroit: become human | chapter 22: the bridge
H: i could kill you, and you would just come back like nothing happened, but are you afraid to die, connor?
C: i would certainly find it regrettable to be...interrupted, before i can finish this investigation.
H: what will happen if i pull this trigger, hm? nothing? oblivion? android heaven?
C: i...doubt there's a heaven for androids.
H: having existential doubts, connor? sure you're not going deviant too?
C: i self test regularly. i know what i am, and what i am not.
horizon zero dawn
the proving | massacre cut scene
H (holding a knife to aloy's throat): turn your face to the sun, child.
the face of extinction | capturing helis cut scene
H: impossible. i am chosen. this was not meant to be.
A: none of this was meant to be, helis. you made it happen. followed your orders, butchered so many - and for what? to die on your knees, used like a pawn by a power you don't even understand.
H (with disgust): you pity me?
A (spear to his throat): turn your face to the sun.
dreams of clytemnestra
O: where have i seen you before?
M: in a dream.
O: a thousand years ago.
the overstory | mimi ma: mulberry
A: who are they?
SH: holy people.
A: what's wrong with them?
SH: happiness. they see the true thing.
A: and what is that?
SH: the true thing mean: human beings, so small, and life, so very big.
A: they've just worked this out?
SH: yes.
A: and this makes them happy?
SH: yes.
the kekulé problem, cormac mccarthy
he was trying to arrive at the configuration of the benzene molecule and not making much progress, when he fell asleep in front of the fire and had his famous dream of a snake coiled up in a hoop with its tail in its mouth; the ouroboros of mythology. the problem, of course - not kekulé's but ours - is that since the unconscious understands language perfectly well or it would not understand the problem in the first place, why doesn't it simply answer kekulé's question with something like: kekulé, it's a bloody ring. to which our scientist might respond; okay, got it, thanks. why the snake? that is, why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us? why the images, metaphors, pictures? why the dreams?
game of thrones | s3e6: the climb
V: i did what i did for the good of the realm.
L: the realm? do you know what the realm is? its the thousand blades of aegon's enemies. a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.
V: but what do we have once we abandon the lie? chaos. a gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.
L: chaos isn't a pit. chaos is a ladder. many who try to climb it fail , never to try again. the fall breaks them. and some are given the chance to climb, but they refuse. they cling to the realm, or gods, or love. illusions. only the ladder is real. the climb is all there is.
detroit: become human | chapter 22: the bridge
H: i could kill you, and you would just come back like nothing happened, but are you afraid to die, connor?
C: i would certainly find it regrettable to be...interrupted, before i can finish this investigation.
H: what will happen if i pull this trigger, hm? nothing? oblivion? android heaven?
C: i...doubt there's a heaven for androids.
H: having existential doubts, connor? sure you're not going deviant too?
C: i self test regularly. i know what i am, and what i am not.
horizon zero dawn
the proving | massacre cut scene
H (holding a knife to aloy's throat): turn your face to the sun, child.
the face of extinction | capturing helis cut scene
H: impossible. i am chosen. this was not meant to be.
A: none of this was meant to be, helis. you made it happen. followed your orders, butchered so many - and for what? to die on your knees, used like a pawn by a power you don't even understand.
H (with disgust): you pity me?
A (spear to his throat): turn your face to the sun.
dreams of clytemnestra
O: where have i seen you before?
M: in a dream.
O: a thousand years ago.
the overstory | mimi ma: mulberry
A: who are they?
SH: holy people.
A: what's wrong with them?
SH: happiness. they see the true thing.
A: and what is that?
SH: the true thing mean: human beings, so small, and life, so very big.
A: they've just worked this out?
SH: yes.
A: and this makes them happy?
SH: yes.
the kekulé problem, cormac mccarthy
he was trying to arrive at the configuration of the benzene molecule and not making much progress, when he fell asleep in front of the fire and had his famous dream of a snake coiled up in a hoop with its tail in its mouth; the ouroboros of mythology. the problem, of course - not kekulé's but ours - is that since the unconscious understands language perfectly well or it would not understand the problem in the first place, why doesn't it simply answer kekulé's question with something like: kekulé, it's a bloody ring. to which our scientist might respond; okay, got it, thanks. why the snake? that is, why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us? why the images, metaphors, pictures? why the dreams?
