Quote du Jour: "A Labyrinth of Voices"

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"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.

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Thank you for your comment! It's much appreciated, knowing that I'm not just "seeing things". :)

Because the connection between Slaying and Performance is so astute and wonderful.

I was enjoying Dink's article/memoir, just relaxing into it the way you do with any engaging story, and then this part - the very last sentences - popped out at me. I had originally planned to have images from various characters to show the parallels, but it was easier to concentrate on Buffy. When I remembered the image from "Anne" of Buffy on that platform, it all fell into place.

Dink is a pianist who recalled his piano teachers from boyhood through college, and so the article like BtVS is a coming-of-age story; there's the same themes of dependency on parental figures/teachers, then eventually disillusionment with them as the student achieves mastery, or some semblance of it. But we internalize our judges and critics so that they continue to live in our heads long after the lessons are over.