Any of you read "A Wizard's Dilemma"?
Mar. 16th, 2006 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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That's the one where Nita's mom is dying. At one point, they describe the heart of NYC as being Times Square.
That always strikes me as being wrong. Times Square is for the tourists, as far as I'm concerned. My city's heart is at Union Square, and always has been.
Union Square was as far south as you could go after 9/11. Couldn't go below 14th Street. And the one memorial that was put up there that *stayed* up was just, on a wall in the train station, a series of stickers with names of people who died. Their birthdates and deathdates as well. Deathdate, yeah.
Well, it's been a while. Some of the stickers are missing now. Others are grubby - they've clearly been peeled off and put back too often.
And I'm just not sure what I think. Do I think it's a crying shame, and there should be a public outcry? That the city or whoever should shell out to make that wall a permanent memorial, with the names engraved in properly? Or do I think this is as it should be, that we can't remember people forever and ever, that we have to live our lives? People fade from our memories, and that's as it should be.
I don't know. I just noticed it today, and started thinking.
That always strikes me as being wrong. Times Square is for the tourists, as far as I'm concerned. My city's heart is at Union Square, and always has been.
Union Square was as far south as you could go after 9/11. Couldn't go below 14th Street. And the one memorial that was put up there that *stayed* up was just, on a wall in the train station, a series of stickers with names of people who died. Their birthdates and deathdates as well. Deathdate, yeah.
Well, it's been a while. Some of the stickers are missing now. Others are grubby - they've clearly been peeled off and put back too often.
And I'm just not sure what I think. Do I think it's a crying shame, and there should be a public outcry? That the city or whoever should shell out to make that wall a permanent memorial, with the names engraved in properly? Or do I think this is as it should be, that we can't remember people forever and ever, that we have to live our lives? People fade from our memories, and that's as it should be.
I don't know. I just noticed it today, and started thinking.
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Date: 2006-03-17 05:02 am (UTC)In particular, I found the contrast...
Like she talks about how words have to mean something. Like they shouldn't be used to distort the truth because lots of trouble can come from it.
And she talks about the value of all kinds of people, and then... you know what kind of person he turns into (not the kind of person he was).
And then she talks about how Kit is not getting certain things right because he is reading too much professional crap that says false things about autism.
...and then her portrayal distorts the truth, engages in some of that professional crap as opposed to the realities, and does not let him stay who he is.