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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” - George Bernard Shaw

Friday, April 29, 2011

A Journey

The mentioning of ocean and mermaids can be referenced to the notorious Sirens. Those seductive females make men fall and sunk their ships. In Greek Mythology, Sirens are 3 infamous dangerous bird-women (and sometimes depicted as mermaids in other works) that sang. Their songs make men lose conscious and they sunk their ship, thereby drowning the people on board. In some way, they crush what men keeps. Those ladies in the room completely obliterate confidence of Prufrock. Prufrock did not follow the Mr. Mike McCool's character loop/cycle model. He start out good and go bad bad bad bad ...blah.  Its definitely not an happy ending.  We start out with a man we do not know. Through the depiction and realization of his thoughts, we know him better at the end of the story. The story goes downhill the entire time. The story started out with him walking upstairs and by the end of the story, we end with him giving up and walking back down. We see how he lost confidence in the story through self questioning and paranoia thinking. He experience pure loss in the story. The harsh truth is this is a journey of never-ending pain. There is no happy state.

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