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shadowkatNot sure The Master and Margrita is the best book for me to be reading at the moment. I'm mentally burned out. Also emotionally. And struggling against a downward spiral. This book may be too literary for my mood. I may need more mindless quippy page turners. On the other hand, books that put me to sleep aren't a bad thing. Not been sleeping well. Just feel tired. About everything.
Remember that song "Virgin State of Mind" from Dopplegandland...and the line "there's a chair where my mind used to be" or "I don't care...", sort of in that frame of mind. Yes, a virgin state of mind, although the word virgin annoys me for reasons I won't go into.
At any rate, I did find this statement by Yesuha on page 22, to Pontius Pilate striking and apropos. And the resulting exchange hilarious. (I get the communist joke and Christian joke, it also works literally by the way. So yes, well written. Good writing works on multiple levels.)
"Among other things,"continued the prisoner, " I said that every kind of power is a form of violence against people and that there will come a time when neither the power of the Casears, nor any other kind of power will exist. Man will enter the kingdom of truth and justice, where no such power will be necessary."
"Go on."
"There was nothing more," said the prisoner, "because it was then that they rushed in, tied me up, and took me off to prison."
Trying not to miss a word, the secretary quickly scribbled everything down on the parchment.
"There is not, never been, and never will be any greater and finer power on earth than the power of the Emperor Tiberius!" Pilate's broken and ailing voice swelled forth.
For some reason the procurator (PILAT) looked at the secretary and the escort with hatred.
LOL! We all know that Emperor Tiberius was sort of forgotten, as are most of these dictators. There's something to be said of Percy Blyshe Shelley's Poem Ozymandias about the forgotten king. (and ironically a forgotten Buffy fanboard member later outted for plagirism - note to self never use Ozymandias as an internet name.)
But it is an apt statement about power. Power abused is a violence on the people that you have power over. And most people abuse it. Unfortunately. When you have power you have to work extra hard to be careful and supportive. To be sensitive. With power comes responsibility. It is equally apt that no power exists past death...just look at Ozy. Hmmm...I wonder if that's why Frank L. Baum called his Wizard - OZ?
Remember that song "Virgin State of Mind" from Dopplegandland...and the line "there's a chair where my mind used to be" or "I don't care...", sort of in that frame of mind. Yes, a virgin state of mind, although the word virgin annoys me for reasons I won't go into.
At any rate, I did find this statement by Yesuha on page 22, to Pontius Pilate striking and apropos. And the resulting exchange hilarious. (I get the communist joke and Christian joke, it also works literally by the way. So yes, well written. Good writing works on multiple levels.)
"Among other things,"continued the prisoner, " I said that every kind of power is a form of violence against people and that there will come a time when neither the power of the Casears, nor any other kind of power will exist. Man will enter the kingdom of truth and justice, where no such power will be necessary."
"Go on."
"There was nothing more," said the prisoner, "because it was then that they rushed in, tied me up, and took me off to prison."
Trying not to miss a word, the secretary quickly scribbled everything down on the parchment.
"There is not, never been, and never will be any greater and finer power on earth than the power of the Emperor Tiberius!" Pilate's broken and ailing voice swelled forth.
For some reason the procurator (PILAT) looked at the secretary and the escort with hatred.
LOL! We all know that Emperor Tiberius was sort of forgotten, as are most of these dictators. There's something to be said of Percy Blyshe Shelley's Poem Ozymandias about the forgotten king. (and ironically a forgotten Buffy fanboard member later outted for plagirism - note to self never use Ozymandias as an internet name.)
But it is an apt statement about power. Power abused is a violence on the people that you have power over. And most people abuse it. Unfortunately. When you have power you have to work extra hard to be careful and supportive. To be sensitive. With power comes responsibility. It is equally apt that no power exists past death...just look at Ozy. Hmmm...I wonder if that's why Frank L. Baum called his Wizard - OZ?
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Date: 2012-01-27 03:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-27 05:06 pm (UTC)I see the religious jokes. But the communism and
historical jokes are shooting over my head a bit. And I'm admittedly in a tree pretty, fire bad type of mood of late. I want to read something with intellectual depth of Jim Butcher not...Dostovesky.