Geen idee wat het betekent, maar het rijmt.
Heel lang geleden schreef ik een tekstje (met een elliptische persoonsvorm in de eerste zin) waarin ik de gelijkenissen tussen 'The Satanic Verses' van Salman Rushdie en de televisieserie 'Heroes' wou aanhalen. Dat deed ik in het Engels, dus ga ik daar ook maar in verder.
At that time, I didn't get past posting a short quote from 'The Satanic Verses'; now, at almost seven in the morning, a little over finishing this year's last issue of dwars (available next week), it is time to finish what I started.
To refresh your memory, the quote from the novel:
How does newness come into the world? How is it born?
Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made?
How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayls of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine?
Is birth always a fall?
Do angles have wings? Can men fly?
Salman Rushdie, 'The Satanic Verses' (1988)
The following are a number of quotes from the beginning or end of a number of episodes from the first season of 'Heroes', all by the (normal, albeit still quite heroic) Indian (as in: from India) professor Mohinder Suresh, adressing the viewer (or God).
When evolution selects its agents, it does so at a cost. It makes demands in exchange for singularity. And you may be asked to do something against your very nature. Suddenly, the change in your life that should have been wonderful comes as a betrayal. It may seem cruel, but the goal is nothing short of self-preservation. Survival.
'Heroes', S01E03 'One Giant Leap'
Evolution is an imperfect and often violent process. A battle between what exists and what is yet to be born.
In the midst of these birth pains, morality loses its meaning. The question of good and evil reduced to one simple choice: survive or perish.
'Heroes', S01E06 'Better Halves'
Maybe it's just me.
[edit: Well, nevermind...]
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