Date: 01 Jun 2013 20:52 Title: Chapter 3
I won’t pretend to comprehend fully the way their large dynamic works out. I know, for me, it’d be a damned nightmare keeping track of all that … but on the other hand, isn’t that what we all do anyway with our families and extended families and our friends we’d call family? It’s a confusing, engaging, and I think rewarding dynamic going on here. It gives me a lot to think about.
Admittedly, I’m not having sexual relations with my family members, of any kind (I may from the South but most of that is frowned upon, lol) so that adds an entirely new set of variables to the equation that I can’t begin to understand. That’s out of my realm but the scenes, taking on face value without my deeper understanding, communicate two things to me: one, the love everyone has for one another and how that love has been nurtured to the point of being near-bouts unbreakable. Two: how the individual pairings here all have passions for one another, physical limitations, fears, and age be damned.
The dream-like state in which they meet reminds me of Unimatrix One in a way (as poor an episode as that was from a Borg standpoint) but here you manage to make it real and not overdone. It’s not some sort of paradise but rather a meeting of the minds in a dreamlike plain where reality is what you make it.
I wonder what feels more real. The dreamlike state or the reality they exist in? A question to think on for me.
Author's Response:
For Calafans, it is a second, separate reality. And the five people in the main arrangement (and their five offspring) are kind of, when in Rome, doing as the Romans do. So for them, both planes are meaningful, and both feel very real because they are real.
And thank you for reading, and making me laugh!