getsomesleep: (suspicious business)
Huo [Zhuge Liang, styled Kongming] ([personal profile] getsomesleep) wrote2011-06-19 05:45 pm

二十三 ; èr shí sān

[Several drops of ink appear on the paper before Huo finally gets to writing - he's hesitating a great deal. His script, too, is slow and cautious.]

While I do not wish to associate myself with anonymous writers of dubious origins, [another long pause, another ink drop] if searchers are currently creating some effect that they are unaware of

[His pen lingers here, and lingers, until finally with a dash of ink, he erases the previous sentence and quickly scribbles something else:]

You are not free of a prison if its roof falls down on your head.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
To know this, you must define 'walls'.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Something keeping you in place. Guess for it to be an option, though, you can't really be attached to the idea've living.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You must also be reasonably certain that death does not also keep you in place.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-19 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't matter so much if you're dead, I figure. That's sort've the end've it.

People ain't supposed to keep going after they die.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-20 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
Then is death not its own sort of captivity?

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-20 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Like I said, depends on how attached you are to the idea've living.

Not being able to die's a more obvious prison.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-23 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
Death suggests finality; life suggests hope. If it is true freedom that you desire, then only while alive can you work to achieve it.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-24 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Depends on the life. With death, you generally know what you're getting into. There ain't any questions. It's just over.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-25 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That is not dissimilar to imprisonment.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-25 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, with imprisonment you got that stupid, optimistic hope you were going on 'bout. Every time you get kicked you can tell yourself the next day'll be different.

And you can tell yourself whatever you damn well please, but that don't mean it'll change a damn thing.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-26 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oblivion is not an entirely closed road, even here.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-26 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't find that cruel? Even if someone dies, you keep that stupid hope that they'll tumble out've a cocoon next week. There ain't any finality.

People need that.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-26 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Others will more readily say that people need hope.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-26 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
They keep that and they can't move on.

People die. They don't come back. That's how it should be. Here someone gets killed and they roll out've bed the next day like nothing happened.

It's a damn hamster wheel.

[identity profile] getsome-sleep.livejournal.com 2011-06-26 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
A thousand pardons, bu I must ask that you try a different metaphor.

[identity profile] unevoked.livejournal.com 2011-06-26 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[A pause.]

What? [He goes with it anyway.] Running in place and getting nowhere. I dunno a better one.