I was looking in the mirror wondering who that guy was looking back at me recently.Of course you know life is a quest of sort. We can see the quest looking back and even looking close at the days events.
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On a different note, perhaps, I was thinking about the movie 'Apocalypse Now'. Then one should not consider the movie without the source for the movie's inspiration. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". Both present quests to find. The quest took in one case Captain Willard to Colonial Kurtz's compound and in the other Marlow to Kurtz's compound. The question becomes what was the "darkness". Was it the trip through the darkness of Africa or up the dark river? Some say it was a quest to find truth and knowledge of the soul or the meaning of life. In the end both Kurtz's die and in both cases their last words are "the horror, the horror". In both cases the Kurtz's, possible cannibals and indeed ruthless men, are implied as morally superior to other men. In both cases it may just be that the person pursuing the "Kurtz" understands that they to have the potential to become as savage as Kurtz. Both thought that it less disgusting to be something evil than to be nothing at all.
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'Apocalypse Now' was not a war movie but but was instead a personal study of man. The Heart of Darkness was likewise the same. Both are left to the viewer or reader to interpret. One could ask which part they play. The part of the one who finds symphony in the flawed morality of he who he pursues. Or the one challenged and changed by his "horror". Then too perhaps all one can find in this question is to answer that he sees himself as the audience.
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Troubles can take you into the heart of darkness and you can lose sight of the value of the trip but then it is a moral struggle..............................
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