To consider the Age of Enlightenment and what it meant to the common lives of people of the status quo in the western world and then look at our current world, how far since has this idea of equality of power been achieved, and what about this illusion of Pursuit of Happiness; voice? everyone is talking at the same time and none of it offers any sane solution.
Virginia’s Orlando (Tilda Swinton is fine to imagine if we consider her in relation to the author’s time frame and the concept of the second Elizabethan era and in relation to the works of the times) shrugs and walks away ….she/he may say as follows:
“It seems to me as if time has gotten away from me; so busy with the succession of traumas that I’ve had no time for life
to live
“I find myself watching the rushes of life go by as though only just seeing what’s been going on all the while around me. Like that Disneyworld ride, the Alice in wonderland tea party. Where you spin sound. Everything goes around you. The swirls of people; the mix of colors, like a Jackson Pollack painting you are immersed within as thrown with your back up against the inside wall of the cup holding you from being flung out ….there we are….pressed like Alice with back up against the inside wall of a cup….i see the lost several years of my life go by me —there! do you see it?
“yes….there she is —
inside a Walt Disney version of Lewis Carroll’s cup
as it all goes back to
Fairy Tales
“And some —are— grimm!
“How the quill doth quiver as….i hesitate over this crossroads to decide ….”
And here Orlando may scratch his/her chin and look up at the sky and wonder aloud like this….
“what path to put my ideas into….so many hours of thought should be neatly pressed, pages fastened together and bound at least for the sake of those little words that would ….get lost. Go wandering into the woods and blown away like breadcrumbs in the breeze
like leaves in a forest or just sheets of paper with hand written words
ideas —if to begin….” pause…. then decisive, “she would be on that page….”
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