from Gemma R
The new fragment is very interesting - "OUT TO PLAY" certainly isn't on the NT's list of shows scheduled for that day. Maybe it's more of a statement of intent - whoever or whatever has been haunting the NT is coming out to play on that day? The NTT coming to take over?
Jenny dreamed of being an actress (I know the feeling). And "what counts is the world of dreams", according to the fragment of August 4th. The fragment of August 16th also says "we're here, we're here, there's no role for us". Maybe Jenny's gone somewhere where dreams can come true, and every actor has a role...? And maybe the mysterious gentleman by the column in the foyer is there to help people cross over from the material world?
Shadows. Shadows, shadows, shadows. I am reminded of Plato's allegory of the cave (taken from good ol' Wikipedia):
"Imagine prisoners who have been chained since childhood deep inside a cave. Not only are their limbs immobilized by the chains; their heads are chained as well so that their eyes are fixed on a wall. Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway, along which shapes of various animals, plants, and other things are carried. The shapes cast shadows on the wall, which occupy the prisoners' attention. When one of the shape-carriers speaks, an echo against the wall causes the prisoners to believe that the words come from the shadows. The prisoners engage in what appears to us to be a game - naming the shapes as they come by. This, however, is the only reality that they know, even though they are seeing merely shadows of images."
This seems to be what the speaker in the fragment of August 4th is trying to say, that this world is just shadows. An illusion.
The allegory of the Cave also reminds me of the text in "the book in
the nook": "Light, with shadow instantly behind, / The real and the fantasy"
The shoes perplex me, though. Why shoes? Is it because Jenny was wishing she was in the shoes of the actress playing Nina in 'The Seagull'? And that piece of text... "How evanescent is the flower of youth?" As in, youth is an illusion? In which case, age is merely illusory. Is this how Jenny could see the man by the column looking the same as he did in 1976?
Jenny dreamed of being an actress (I know the feeling). And "what counts is the world of dreams", according to the fragment of August 4th. The fragment of August 16th also says "we're here, we're here, there's no role for us". Maybe Jenny's gone somewhere where dreams can come true, and every actor has a role...? And maybe the mysterious gentleman by the column in the foyer is there to help people cross over from the material world?
Shadows. Shadows, shadows, shadows. I am reminded of Plato's allegory of the cave (taken from good ol' Wikipedia):
"Imagine prisoners who have been chained since childhood deep inside a cave. Not only are their limbs immobilized by the chains; their heads are chained as well so that their eyes are fixed on a wall. Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway, along which shapes of various animals, plants, and other things are carried. The shapes cast shadows on the wall, which occupy the prisoners' attention. When one of the shape-carriers speaks, an echo against the wall causes the prisoners to believe that the words come from the shadows. The prisoners engage in what appears to us to be a game - naming the shapes as they come by. This, however, is the only reality that they know, even though they are seeing merely shadows of images."
This seems to be what the speaker in the fragment of August 4th is trying to say, that this world is just shadows. An illusion.
The allegory of the Cave also reminds me of the text in "the book in
the nook": "Light, with shadow instantly behind, / The real and the fantasy"
The shoes perplex me, though. Why shoes? Is it because Jenny was wishing she was in the shoes of the actress playing Nina in 'The Seagull'? And that piece of text... "How evanescent is the flower of youth?" As in, youth is an illusion? In which case, age is merely illusory. Is this how Jenny could see the man by the column looking the same as he did in 1976?
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