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Most people have a bit of a masochistic streak in them.
By the way, whenever I see a character who has a sleep…ailment(such as Jen releasing the Lady whenever she goes to sleep), I always imagine how much worse it would be if said character was narcoleptic.
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I think I see what the Lady is trying to say. The dead don’t share the concerns of the living because they see how silly they are. How limiting that perspective is. A lot of them don’t think the material world is worth their time at all… but if the dead could help the living to transcend their limited perspective, the living would be able to get so much more from the world of sense and experience…
Something like that. I guess that’s what the Lady is trying to do, isn’t it? But she seems rather cynical in her approach.
Albert: I agree with you in respect to the Lady’s message. BUT the last comic with Fang+his spirits conveyed teh opposite message! the extinct spirits and Fangs wife seemed very much to want to be alive! The Lady didn’t take their limited life away
xcal, that’s assuming that they truly knew what they wanted. Have you never heard the phrase “be careful what you wish for”?
It ties into the Buddhist conception of “grasping”. We are so desperate to hold on to this life, so consumed by the fear of losing it, that it ends up only bringing us suffering and thus we fail to really get anything meaningful out of it. Yet there is still that instinctual urge to grasp onto it desperately, not because it is so wonderful, but simply for the sake of the grasping itself.
@Vex Godglove: I’ve never heard it explained the way you did (“grasping”), but it really does make sense.
I think that people ‘hang on” to life for many different reasons. Some don’t want their loved ones to feel sorrow, so they hang on as long as they can.
Others are waiting for a certain event (holding their first grandchild just once before they die, etc.).
Others are just so afraid of the concept of “nothingness” that they do “grasp” onto this life- no matter how much pain they are in or how horrible their quality of living is.
Personally, as someone with not one, but TWO chronic illnesses which left me disabled at age 31- for the rest of my life- wish for death pretty much on a daily basis just so I can escape this pain. I feel trapped inside a broken body.
However, my loved ones want me to go on living, in spite of how much pain and fatigue I suffer day after day. I continue to live for them, not for myself. I’m not really even living anymore- I’m basically just “existing”.
I want what The Lady seems to bring to those who really want it (whether they consciously acknowledge it or not).
I wish she lived in my neighborhood LOL
MeOw!
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I love her last line because it’s so familiar, I wrote a poem entitled “Eyes of a Goddess” and the last line is “and the earth still had her in its grasp.”
I am loving this comic so far, I chanced upon it a few days ago and am working hard to catch up!