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Archive for March, 2009

Symbol Brief — Wind

It’s very windy in my part of the world today.  The just-budding bushes and trees are knocking at my windows letting me know they’re awake and spring is moving in. Wind is the world pushing forward, changing, ending and beginning. It stops long enough to pick up and carry off whatever is in its path — from the smallest [...]

“Watchmen” Characters Are A Psychological Seesaw

On one end sits The Comedian and Rorschach. Their emotions control their lives. They act chiefly on the impulse to destroy. The Comedian seems to find pleasure in the pain he inflicts. Rorschach operates with righteous anger seeded in wounds that were inflicted on him a long time ago. (It’s a nice touch that Rorschach has red hair [...]

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