I'm glad to hear you say that.
It was important to me to try to invest TNE with something of a "heart."
Not like that makes me unique, or anything, it was just something that I
was conciously trying to do.
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:46:35 -0000, "helvorn" <> wrote:
> --- In [1], wrote:
> >
> > Don't know how well "White City" refers to meta-identities. As I felt
> it, it is a meditation on the tension between love and violence and
> despair and crushing alienation and dehumanization, and how the love for
> humanity in the aggregate sometimes requires you to do things that
> dishonors love for humanity on the individual level. And the point is
> that even when you have to do unpleasant things for the greater good,
> which the RC did, good, honest, decent people still carry the scars of
> the cost.
> >
> > God, I'm a downer.
> >
> > But I'll bet Mr. Townshend's music has applicabilities I had not
> > considered.
>
> Dave,
> I always thought that the underlying tension and angst caused by the
> choices that had to be made in the RC made it much more 'real' for me.
> The setting let you head out into the darkness and make a difference
even
> at a tremendous personal cost. Not so much a downer as a story of life
in
> this imperfect world.
>
> Matt
>
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