Comments on: A New Dawn http://elephantwords.co.uk/2008/12/09/a-new-dawn/ One Image, Six Writers, Daily Words. The site about Interpretation, Inspiration and Improvisation. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou http://elephantwords.co.uk/2008/12/09/a-new-dawn/#comment-9690 Nicolas Papaconstantinou Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:23:51 +0000 http://elephantwords.co.uk/?p=1096#comment-9690 Oh, wow, an Easter Egg. Totally beautiful image, by the way! Yeah, I definitely think it was because the love story was so effective, rather than that the death of the planet <i>wasn't</i>. My personal instinct is that, if something apocalyptic like that happens, the individual's tendency will be to narrow their focus to their own immediate situation, rather than take in the existential horror of the wider perspective - that's why whenever there's a massive disaster, we tend to focus on the smaller human stories. So I can totally believe someone just getting distracted by other, more immediate things, and being surprised by the consequences of the bigger picture. Wow, that's a garbled thought process, right there... Oh, wow, an Easter Egg. Totally beautiful image, by the way!

Yeah, I definitely think it was because the love story was so effective, rather than that the death of the planet wasn’t.

My personal instinct is that, if something apocalyptic like that happens, the individual’s tendency will be to narrow their focus to their own immediate situation, rather than take in the existential horror of the wider perspective – that’s why whenever there’s a massive disaster, we tend to focus on the smaller human stories.

So I can totally believe someone just getting distracted by other, more immediate things, and being surprised by the consequences of the bigger picture.

Wow, that’s a garbled thought process, right there…

]]> By: iansharman http://elephantwords.co.uk/2008/12/09/a-new-dawn/#comment-9689 iansharman Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:52:02 +0000 http://elephantwords.co.uk/?p=1096#comment-9689 Well, I think that's because the death of the human race is pretty much just an incidental fact in the story, it's not what the story is about. The story is about how life often pulls you apart from the person you love without you ever realising it, because you always think there'll be time for them later. Just, you know, taken to the extreme. Really, his job could have been anything, and her death could have happened in a much more mundane way, but the picture spoke to me of new worlds...and, besides, it's just more interesting this way. By the way...did you notice that the planet's name is a link? Well, I think that’s because the death of the human race is pretty much just an incidental fact in the story, it’s not what the story is about. The story is about how life often pulls you apart from the person you love without you ever realising it, because you always think there’ll be time for them later. Just, you know, taken to the extreme. Really, his job could have been anything, and her death could have happened in a much more mundane way, but the picture spoke to me of new worlds…and, besides, it’s just more interesting this way.

By the way…did you notice that the planet’s name is a link?

]]> By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou http://elephantwords.co.uk/2008/12/09/a-new-dawn/#comment-9685 Nicolas Papaconstantinou Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:25:31 +0000 http://elephantwords.co.uk/?p=1096#comment-9685 That's sad. Although I find it interesting that you've managed to write a piece where I'm sadder about the seperation - and, you know, tragic bereavement - between the couple than I am about the demise of the human race as we know it! That’s sad. Although I find it interesting that you’ve managed to write a piece where I’m sadder about the seperation – and, you know, tragic bereavement – between the couple than I am about the demise of the human race as we know it!

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