Re: a slice of life
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:40:57 +1000
> > ... Coming back to an earlier
> >argument, we collectively incarnate such characters as Holden and Hamlet
> >(and coincidentally, their emotional dilemmas are not at all dissimilar)
in
> >our minds and hearts, causing them to `live' outside the confines of
their
> >narrative. We think of what Holden would do in a situation, but we
rarely
> >wonder what, say, Arthur Dent would.
Mattis wrote:
> I am not quite sure what the phenomenon Camille points out has to
> do with universality
It's a little like what Matt was saying about how everyone has a different
experience of love, which I take from a slightly different tack to him. I
think while this may be true, all these experience are linked under a thing
called Love, and the fact that everyone experiences some sort of
manifestation of it is what is universal about it. Together, we all create
a wholly disparate but still collective experience called Love. In the same
way, everyone has a different Holden, and all the different Holdens in the
millions of minds across the world contribute to make one `universal'
Holden (sounds like a kind of car - you have to remember Holden is one of
the main car brands in Australia, like Ford or Toyota) (:
Anyway, glad I could illuminate some stuff for you, because it's one of my
favourite things to do!
Camille
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