http://www.fluxblog.org/2010/03/sentimental-heartbreaking Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:33:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.fluxblog.org/2010/03/sentimental-heartbreaking#comment-17802 DigitalDaedalus Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:49:09 +0000 http://www.fluxblog.org/?p=3072#comment-17802 While I agree this song wallows in the dull and cyclical nature of life from which we have to salvage our psyches, it seems not to be dimly aware of dread but of the moments in which we feel truly alive, either from sentimental emotion or of the moment excitement. Here both fear of death and everyday boredom are compressed into the same soul-numbing feeling, so the only true fear comes from the knowledge that we can only achieve fleeting moments of clarity and fulfillment, only to slip back up and around, back into the flow of the life (or lives) we can't control. While I agree this song wallows in the dull and cyclical nature of life from which we have to salvage our psyches, it seems not to be dimly aware of dread but of the moments in which we feel truly alive, either from sentimental emotion or of the moment excitement. Here both fear of death and everyday boredom are compressed into the same soul-numbing feeling, so the only true fear comes from the knowledge that we can only achieve fleeting moments of clarity and fulfillment, only to slip back up and around, back into the flow of the life (or lives) we can’t control.

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