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Dialectic Journals (Book 7)
"Dienekes himself drew his blade. He was going to open Rooster’s throat on the spot as a traitor. Rooster swore by every god he could think of; he wasn’t lying. “Things look different in the dark.” He offered lamely.
Polynikes saved him. "I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would screw it up."The party slithered on, neck-deep in marrow-numbing rapids. At one point Dienekes' leg became snarled in a tangle of reeds; he had to submerge with his xiphos to cut himself free. He came up snorting. I asked what he was laughing at. "I was just wondering if it was possible to get any more miserable." He chuckled darkly. "I suppose if a river snake crawled up my ass and gave birth to quintuplets . . ." Suddenly Rooster's hand nudged my master's shoulder. A hundred paces ahead stood another dam and spillway. Three linen pavilions abutted a pleasant beach; a lantern-lit walkway snaked up the slope, past a hide corral in which were confined a dozen blanket-draped war mounts of such magnificence that the worth of each alone must have equaled the produce of a small city. Directly above rose a copse of oak, lit by iron cressets howling in the gale, and beyond, past a single picket line of Egyptian marines, could be glimpsed the pennanted kingposts of a pavilion so vast it looked like it housed a battalion. "That's it." Rooster pointed. "That's Xerxes' tent."" Page 326 (12.5) This quote struck me because it shows how easily someone will disbelieve someone with a past of insincere “honor.” Yet at the same time someone will believe them, for whatever reason (be it their belief in how stupid the person is or genuine trust). This quote makes me think, why is it that it becomes so hard for someone to trust another? Is it because, somewhere inside they never really trusted them to begin with – even if they thought they did. Or maybe it comes down to stereotype, that person of whom you don’t believe in seems like the type of person you were taught not to trust. They did something “bad” – but bad to one person is good to another, so how can you tell when someone did something “bad” enough that you do not trust them anymore? Wont there always be someone who sympathizes for that person or at least tries to persuade you to “let it go”? This quote makes me generally confused, with all those questions running around in there it’s hard for me to pinpoint my main feeling on this quote. Not to mention there is a second half to this quote I haven’t even touched base with yet. How fast a situation can turn the corner, so to speak. You could be at a severely miserable point in the moment when the thing you wanted to happen suddenly happens, in this quote it is Rooster identifying the correct tent belonging to Xerxes. This happened right after Dienekes posed the thought of whether or not their situation could get any more miserable and then went into his little discovery of a way it could (I don’t think you want me repeating that). That part makes me recognize with the quote, there have been times where I have thought that my position couldn’t be any more miserable and that the particular horrid moment turned around and I found myself in a better situation (of course – sometimes the exact opposite happens and the moment does become worse). "His priestess mother taught him, Suicide said, that nothing beneath the sun is real. The earth and everything upon it is but a forestander, the material embodiment of a finer and more profound reality which exists immediately behind it, invisible to mortal sense. Everything we call real is sustained by this subtler fundament, which underlies it, indestructible, unglimpsed beyond the curtain. “My mother’s religion teaches that those things alone are real which cannot be perceived by the senses. The soul. Mother love. Courage, These are closer to God, she taught, because they alone are the same on both sides of death, in front of the curtain and behind.” Page 330 (12.5) This quote was brought to me almost immediately. As it is a though I have thought to myself often, the fact that perhaps, none of this was real. Sometimes things seem just like a dream – or nightmare – when you’re told it’s reality. Somehow, I think many people would be relieved if this wasn’t real. Many people would be devastated to learn the people they loved maybe never really existed. What a cruel fact, the people you grew up with, trusted the most – they were all just a figment of your imagination. None of it was real. The people you despised and utterly abhorred were also a figment as well, though that might seem as a godsend. All of your troubles weren’t really your troubles, they were just parts of the dream that sometimes took a downward spiral into a nightmare. Then, as if it were magic, it would become a dream again – and so on. Everything that was real was behind a “curtain.” Yet doesn’t that pose the question: If there is anyone else behind the curtain? What happens when you finally die in your dream? Are you still alive – or is your spirit dead? If we live one when we die in our dream, will we wake up to other people? Or will we just be alone? Will we die again after we have woken from our dream? This quote confuses me, mainly because this is a thought I have had for years on end – and still I cannot find the answer to it.I mean, why do we dream or sleeping? Why do we dream of dreaming? Why do we dream horrible things and then dream of sleeping and having a nightmare in the process? Is our real self doing it to ourselves to cause that utter sense of drama – or is it a subconscious state of mind that will cause us to go into a “nightmare”? On Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM
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Konbanwa. My name is Brendon -- and I am a girl, mind you. I'm gluttonous -- I eat a lot... but sadly I've had to cut that down for weight purposes and the sake of my braces (Owwies!). I like some healthy stuff, apples are my favorite. Celery is good too. Specially with peanut butter. I have a really big sweet tooth, specially for chocolate but sadly if I eat too much my throat starts to hurt and I get a bloody nose. If I eat TOO much candy my teeth start hurting too.
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