...and our experiences. just musing... first, a poem...
The Garden of Love
I went to the Garden of Love
And saw what I had never seen:
A chapel was built in the midst
where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this chapel were shut,
And "Thou shalt not" writ over the door;
So I turned to this Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be,
And priests in black gowns were walking their
rounds
and binding with briars my joys and desires.
-- William Blake
that's always been one of my favorite poems. and so i thought about stories, songs or films that interest me and realized they all have a common thread woven through them - of survival, or isolation, or a wasted life, or escaping oppression, or rebellion, or about one person making a difference, or following your own heart, etc. for example:
the shawshank redemption
the remains of the day
the age of innocence
the accidental tourist
alien and aliens (i luv when the queen gets it!)
the manchurian candidate
lorenzo's oil
office space
1984
romeo and juliet
farnham's freehold - robert heinlein
war day - whitley streiber
does our experience shape that much who we become, or our tastes in books and films, men/women, even if we have worked to overcome it?
anyway i'm just musing, like i said.