Quote du Jour: "A Labyrinth of Voices"

[red_satin_doll]

"There's a labyrinth of Voices inside your head, a counterpoint of self-awareness and the remembered sayings of your guides and mentors, who don't always agree. Sometimes, you wish you could go back and ask your teachers again to guide you..."

"... but up there, onstage, exactly where they always wanted you to be, you must simply find your way. They have given you all the help they can; the only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is you."


- Jeremy Dink, "Every Good Boy Does Fine," The New Yorker, April 8, 2013; pg 43.

Comments

[kikimay]

Beautiful - and really wise - quote. I like the association of pictures.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon, I knew you'd enjoy it. I found that quote the other day - the article it's from is Jeremy Dink writing very memorably and vividly about his piano teachers through the years; I highly recommend it - and knew it fit the Buffyverse perfectly. I had imagined having matching images of Buffy and Spike, of Faith with Angel and then with the Mayor, or maybe just Buffy and Faith, etc...in other words, I could have combined a thousand or more images from the show, but I thought I'd better focus - this took all day as it is!

[kikimay]

I this case good work and lovely choice. It's really poignant with Giles and Joyce together and the parallels between S3 and S7

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

The tension between Joyce and Giles fascinating - maybe in part because I'm the daughter of a single mom and there's a particular mother/daughter bond I connect with on the show, because I always love female characters anyway; and maybe a bit because fandom isn't as interested in Joyce. And neither is the show, really - fandom is taking it's cues from the show in some respects - but it's interesting to me that Joyce never really goes away, even after her death. She's absolutely central to Buffy's life, and her presence haunts Buffy and Dawn throughout S6-7, even if only in the form of the framed photo of Joyce next to the couch (on which Joyce died.)

I really remember watching the show the first time through that I wanted to see much more of Joyce in it, although what there is of her is so rich and compelling at times.