I told you I'd be the first. Anyway, I read "Duplicates," and it was actually really fun to read. It grabbed me when the duplications started appearing so of course I had to find out what was happening (although I did question how a math teacher became so familiar with all the cats in the neighborhood). After finding out it was some sort of unexplained phenomena, I, as years at Seabury Hall has trained me to do, attempted to find the inner meaning of the story, which I think Professor Z explained perfectly: "What we’re seeing is what we want to see, what we haven’t been able to see, but what’s been there all along...at the sub-atomic level, of course." I interpreted this as all people have dreams, but sometimes those dreams can seem unreachable when in fact they really are waiting to be attained. I thought this was supported more clearly at the end of the story when Darla feels extremely relaxed when she sort of hallucinates all the landmarks. The "oneness" remark I also interpreted as that these dreams that I already mentioned bring everything closer together because everyone has a dream - it's a quality everyone shares. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot, and I look forward to reading your other stories.
Al The Key In the Water is interesting. Why did the key suddenly start working? I guess it was a symbol that you were fitting things together from your past, the way a key fits in an ignition. The twin towers falling and you going back to your "roots" - is Maui now your new roots? Well, it has a nice rhythym to it and a lot of mystery.
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I told you I'd be the first. Anyway, I read "Duplicates," and it was actually really fun to read. It grabbed me when the duplications started appearing so of course I had to find out what was happening (although I did question how a math teacher became so familiar with all the cats in the neighborhood). After finding out it was some sort of unexplained phenomena, I, as years at Seabury Hall has trained me to do, attempted to find the inner meaning of the story, which I think Professor Z explained perfectly: "What we’re seeing is what we want to see, what we haven’t been able to see, but what’s been there all along...at the sub-atomic level, of course." I interpreted this as all people have dreams, but sometimes those dreams can seem unreachable when in fact they really are waiting to be attained. I thought this was supported more clearly at the end of the story when Darla feels extremely relaxed when she sort of hallucinates all the landmarks. The "oneness" remark I also interpreted as that these dreams that I already mentioned bring everything closer together because everyone has a dream - it's a quality everyone shares. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot, and I look forward to reading your other stories.
Al
The Key In the Water is interesting. Why did the key suddenly start working? I guess it was a symbol that you were fitting things together from your past, the way a key fits in an ignition.
The twin towers falling and you going back to your "roots" - is Maui now your new roots?
Well, it has a nice rhythym to it and a lot of mystery.
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