03-21-2013, 03:19 AM
Wow !
To be honest, Mikey, this was not intended to be a riddle... but I love your interpretation of it ! Now, to answer your question :
"But why thirsty? If a dew drop were conscious, what would it wish to drink?"
The notion of "thirst", based on the idea that the actor is a conscious dew drop, is linked to "solitude". She wants to join other drops, so that she may be one with something bigger that still shares her very nature, exacerbating it, making it even more real to her - but she can't. Does this sound like a sensible, rational, not-at-all-invented-for-the-needs-of-the-situation explanation ?
Carile
@Todd : thank you for your help. About ashes : they do make me think of thirst, but more because of their dry touch than by the fact they come from fire. It also means all forms of life are dead in this world, except for the character and the pine needle she keeps in her heart like a painful but essential memory, a part of her being. Everything else has returned to a mineral state.
About cutting "in" (l1) and "For" (l13) : I... I don't like changing even numbers of syllables to odd numbers just like that. It's an old, tenacious obession, sorry ! the ideas were interesting, though.
To be honest, Mikey, this was not intended to be a riddle... but I love your interpretation of it ! Now, to answer your question :
"But why thirsty? If a dew drop were conscious, what would it wish to drink?"
The notion of "thirst", based on the idea that the actor is a conscious dew drop, is linked to "solitude". She wants to join other drops, so that she may be one with something bigger that still shares her very nature, exacerbating it, making it even more real to her - but she can't. Does this sound like a sensible, rational, not-at-all-invented-for-the-needs-of-the-situation explanation ?
Carile
@Todd : thank you for your help. About ashes : they do make me think of thirst, but more because of their dry touch than by the fact they come from fire. It also means all forms of life are dead in this world, except for the character and the pine needle she keeps in her heart like a painful but essential memory, a part of her being. Everything else has returned to a mineral state.
About cutting "in" (l1) and "For" (l13) : I... I don't like changing even numbers of syllables to odd numbers just like that. It's an old, tenacious obession, sorry ! the ideas were interesting, though.