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Nihilisia
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 		New note from Spock Vulture
From: "Spock Vulture" <mu_nin@hotmail.com>
To: laiaSPLATfamiliasalla-es.ro
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:44:10 +0000


I walked down the street from my motel last night to a delapidated
multiplex, and what I witnessed there amazed me. You seem so easily
distracted and shallow, and then you go and create something like
"Matrix
Reloaded", a work of astonishing depth and transcendence. (Which, I
dare
say, "Ewan" would find rather strangely disconcerting if he ever saw
it.)

I must admit I became so immersed in the epic tale that I nearly cried
out a
warning when Morpheous, Trinity, and Neo were offered food by the
Merovingian. There at his side was Persephone, you see (which means it
must
be winter in the Matrix). The apparent conflation of the lord of the
underworld with a dynasty responsible for guarding the sangrail was
intriguing, and I'm still not sure what to make of it.

Regardless, it's an amazing layer of meaning to add upon what, on the
surface, would seem to be a very futuristic story: humans at war with
their
machine creations -- having brought about nuclear winter in order to
deprive
the digital progeny of sustainence only to have the machines turn to
them
for power, enslaving them in vats of fluid -- are forced to burrow deep
underground for survival and freedom.

The striking thing about the inclusion of the Persephone story, which
is
very old (Homerian, even), is that it is built around a conflict
between an
older generation of goddesses -- Persephone and her mother -- and the
newer
generation of gods: the lord of the underworld and his brother, chief
among
this new generation of gods after he liberated his siblings from the
belly
of their father. It's a power struggle between the two generations,
which
Persephone's mother wins (in a way) by threatening to wipe out humanity
by
refusing to let the earth bear crops. Faced with the extinction of
mankind,
the first among the gods of the mountain relents and tells his brother
to
free Persephone from his realm. However, because she had, of her own
will,
eaten pomegranate seeds of his realm (partaking of his seed, in a
manner of
speaking that always got a laugh on the mount), she must spend one
third of
each year underground, ruling as Queen of the Dead.
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 		Has anyone gone anywhere with this? Figured out the people he's talking about? Its certainly not an interpretation of Matrix Reloaded I've seen elsewhere.

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