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Post by phanax on Nov 9, 2005 10:04:09 GMT
been thinking was it a happy or a sad ending? I'll admit to being rather drunk and teary eyed at the end your opinions please...
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Post by Indefinite Description on Nov 10, 2005 11:59:50 GMT
Having thought about this a bit, I don't think it could be easily called a 'happy' ending (except perhaps by Malc), but it was strangely optimistic too... That's what I was getting at with the 'Misuzu ≈ Nietzsche' comment that was in my autosig recently, although since I obviously don't expect people here to have read Nietzsche it was there more to be perplexing and provocative. There's something of the same amor fati ('love of fate' -- one of Nietzsche's terms), the sense that even a painful life is ultimately worthwhile and pregnant with potential -- 'not merely to bear what is necessary... but to love it'. I don't actually think Air goes that far (or that it was ever intended to go close), but something of that ending somehow makes me think of that, especially when Misuzu insists on walking that distance, ceasing to take what the world flings at her lying down and doing what she wants to.
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Post by phanax on Nov 10, 2005 12:04:16 GMT
"don't tell me you are free, show me you have the right to be free"
our sensei's a tutor at the philosophy department, almost all his howa talks incorporate niche or geurte (customised spellings)
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Post by Indefinite Description on Nov 10, 2005 12:14:12 GMT
Really? Care to name him? I wonder how important freedom is in this context... Freedom to act inspite of not having freedom from terrible illness... Freedom to take what attitude to life you will, to make of your circumstances what you will... But I wonder whether Misuzu saw what she was doing in terms of free action, or whether she thought she was doing what she had to do. Maybe either interpretation would fit... I'll have to think about this some more.
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Post by phanax on Nov 10, 2005 14:24:01 GMT
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