Here we are again! Today we talk of Chapter 34 "The mysterious door." I will not reveal what "mysterious door" is spoken, as it is currently not in itself very important, because the discourse on this "magical object" is mostly used to turn back in time with the memory Sendo, and show us a few minutes of Dorothy .
Those old memories are of course to give body and depth to the story, reactions characters, introduce, advance, without really talking about it, something that will very much later (the "door", no?) and bind thematically to the previous chapter.
In the discussion the previous week had focused attention on the role / function of the grandmother, who served as the engine of history not only of motor actions but also of inner development. At the beginning of this chapter we see instead a Sendo still stuck in his work. For it is not yet able to decide either to undertake, especially in cross-section of memories, we see intent to yearn for a child time "where everything was magical." Dorothy argues that now is the Academy of magic ... where to find a most magical place?! But he did not want "magic" in the strict sense. Now, the Academy, suffered discrimination, it feels like a fish out of water ... that is precisely the period of childhood in which he knew to be himself ... where the magic of the discovery of a world that did not yet know was all, was his horizon ... Sendo then is still standing: it does not really walked out to find himself. The "self" adult in the world today do not recognize, in actions, in the way of thinking, in the events of his surroundings. I do not feel like her this world.
Why was unable to grow? Actually I think it is wrong "feeling outside" world to a "neutral" to a twisted world, and never clean, corrupt relationships ... is lawful, I think, to feel "different" if that surrounds us does not meet what we feel. The return to childhood, a moment that is that there appears free and authentic, easy to understand, is often almost automatically. This speech has at least one important literary antecedent: the story the silver key of Lovecraft's character back to childhood (and the dream, mind you!) Through a magical object. Lovecraft was much criticized for this story because it did not present a positivist progress (which was already cracked, however, we are in 1926) of a man who, growing up, gets its place in society as a contributor to the common welfare, raise a family etc.. (See Dickens), but quite the contrary, the figure of an adult man looking for his achievement in childhood, the irrational, the "flight from reality" (which is a "flight" or not, remains to be seen: escape into the dream, from the standpoint of my book, it would not of course! See the weekly update number 3!).
Mindful of this precedent (but there would be many others) do not mean that Sendo should accept in its own today, to be framed in society and have, instead of escaping into the irrational, because the supine and complete adherence to a company apparent narrow-minded and shuns me absolutely (see it in volume 0, the part in the first chapter to the asylum, Dr. Whitehouse says, "Something must be traced to these companies for their husbands, workers and so on." because their insanity is not a disease but a social For him it is a rebellion established order!), what I mean is that the return to a past that no return is equally wrong, is like putting our heads in the sand not to see. What is necessary is to reconstruct the first man, the man dreaming of childhood, with men now: living in the present, not in the past, but live consciously. And only in dreams can man find himself.
A final note of "color" later in this chapter we talk about anything. You see the ramshackle efforts of Alice and co. to meet the demands of his grandmother, producing a great disaster. In addition to this high comedy in all this, I would like to point out a design element. That is the point of the marine world. What hits the marine world, you say? Nothing, we are in fact dry, solidly in the Tower of Ehuresya. The description, however, the disaster occurred magic was matched with descriptions of aquatic environments, let me explain: the similarities and metaphors to describe the contemporary situation created by the use of power and mindless of Alice and Ayane are all examples were taken by sea, arriving to compare the living room flooded in a "tropical lagoon. I think this makes it a good idea of \u200b\u200bTomotomopoppin: colorful metaphors that recall absurd elements in a given context, and completely change the tangible reality, proposing it highly distorted on a different level, in short, re-projected through a filter (the metaphorically, in this case, "the sea"), so as to obtain a strongly different from the original. Even in this case are used to putting a few pages before, "foreshadowing" of what I do: while the situation is still "normal", while Alice and co. have been taken in cleaning the tower of his grandmother, I have included several elements "water" and marine, as the chandelier made of a large rudder and the floor so clogged up that look like the back of a whale incrustations of mussels.
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