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[PUZZLE] Dina - Deadcafe / BalladsofFrogs / Triad
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anima
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Toast wrote:
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Out of this life every land is exile.


Oooookay. Perhaps I'm failing to get this, but could someone explain the significance of this sentence? Please?


I thought that Dina quotes some poet/writer here because it is in inverted commas, but the closest I got to this phrase in Google was Seneca's "No land is a land of exile, but rather another patria".

(patria meaning fatherland, homeland from Latin)

I found in on this site. This is the whole paragraph:

"The true exile — Cicero warns us — is the absence of virtue: a challenging statement further developed by Seneca, who writes: "No land is a land of exile, but rather another patria"; namely, a country and a place where civic and religious virtue can be practiced in order to obtain, according to Dante's teaching and practice, beatitude first here in this life and then in the next."

I can't quite understand Dina's sentence - does she mean to say that she doesn't feel at home anywhere, except in her "previous" life?

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i think thats what she is alluding to here
i think she is to terms with the fact that she isn't who she thinks she is and she isn't who she was, so she's trying to cope with those facts and has an uneasy feeling about this paradox.
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could mean: out of "this" life (matrix) every land is exile (zion) lol

except she wudnt know thats why she said that, it wud just be subconcious.

or something like: of of this life (her current (identity)) every land is exile (dangerous as her old self)

who knows for sure...cud mean things like that, and more.

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i think we should focus on the "two times four times three times 5" puzzle
it seems to be staring us in the face but we just can't thumb it down.
could it be a mathematical clue that we can use for something?
but what is being multiplied could it be the repeated words?
her her her
place
the others?
any one have any ideas or am i shooting in the darK Question
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Pard'n my ignorane, but where is the 2*3*4*5 quote found (or whatever the #'s are?)
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in dinas dream essay or whatever it is i believe it is the second one that is posted on the first page of this forum
lol im startING to sound like sylvia!
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Zimbu wrote:
Pard'n my ignorane, but where is the 2*3*4*5 quote found (or whatever the #'s are?)


It's actually contained in the comments in the source of this entry of Dina's weblog:

http://dina.thenekodas.com/weblog/archives/2003_11.html#000284

If you look at the source, there is a huge comment in the paragraph beginning "I don't think I ever wanted children."

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