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epitome of incomprehensibility
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1) In the animated Charlotte's_Web, why do two balloons that bump into each other immediately pop? Perhaps it's because they rise so far into the sky that the air pressure or the sun's heat weakens them to the point that they'll burst at the slightest touch. Perhaps it represents the inevitability of the laws of nature as well as our inability to fully comprehend them.
(Perhaps it reminds me now of the danger of getting too close to someone else and then losing them. Not that Wilbur exploded. Not that I've exploded yet, but heartbreak is a hell of a bug.)
2) Why is everyone so theatrically scared of the "black spot" in Muppet Treasure Island? Clearly, it's no ordinary dot, but a black hole, which is a portal to another universe, and the muppets fear being sucked into it.
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I put something of this second theory into my novel-in-attempted-progress. Who knows if it'll be purged in a revision - maybe by me, maybe by an editor who wants to avoid too many references to outside media in case readers don't get it. Like, I would bet ACTUAL MONEY that the author of A_Spindle_Splitered wanted to namedrop the notorious Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal when she referred to her main character doing something "gothicly" but she couldn't because the editor thought the reference would be too obscure for Gen Z-ers.
Anyway, it's like this: Carol, age 13, comes across her brother Mac, 17, watching Schindler's List. He's doing so because he wants to understand the experience of his (step-)grandmother's family better, although it doesn't turn out to relate that much. Carol starts watching about a quarter of the way through. When she sees "the guy who says the F word" calling a woman inhuman, she at first thinks that the character Helen is an android (maybe Carol also watched Blade Runner when she was too young). But when she realizes Goeth is just a nazi-variety racist, she's all, "Ohhh, this like the time I misunderstood Muppet Treasure Island. I didn't realize intra-dimensional portals aren't a thing in pirate movies." She doesn't register the movie's violence enough to be seriously disturbed by it, but then she has an existential crisis about an unrelated thing.
...Like your off-topic author visiting the Sachsenhausen museum and bursting into uncontrollable tears about how her classmate was treated badly. But that's another story.
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