I guess if one wished to see something in these characters it would be in seeing something noble in their ambition-- what one might say distinguishes ambition and quest? and is the desire to be at home in the world of brightness and lights ignoble or decadant? perhaps it is a quest pitched too low and mistaking the lower for the higher... the green light at the end of the pier but are higher quests free from tragic end...Captain Ahab's ship destroyed... and if that is flawed...what of all the others who were strangers and pilgrims on the earth... "some wandered in the desert seeking a city they could dwell in (Psalms)..." "People who say such things confess that they seek a city..." but many died in the desert and in the wilderness ... we do not see the ends of things...
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Date: 2006-11-22 05:36 pm (UTC)in these characters it would be in
seeing something noble in their ambition--
what one might say distinguishes ambition
and quest? and is the desire to be at
home in the world of brightness and lights
ignoble or decadant? perhaps it is a quest
pitched too low and mistaking the lower
for the higher...
the green light at the end of the pier
but are higher quests free from tragic
end...Captain Ahab's ship destroyed...
and if that is flawed...what of all the
others who were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth...
"some wandered in the desert seeking a
city they could dwell in (Psalms)..."
"People who say such things confess
that they seek a city..."
but many died in the desert and in the
wilderness ...
we do not see the ends of things...
anyway this is how it seems to me.