It is scary how routinely and how subtly evil can enter the world around someone and fill the cracks. Like water. Dead water.
Interestingly, the "dead water" motif found in Slavic folklore is more than just a substance deadly for living creatures. It transforms the living into the dead, true, but it also affects the dead, for example it heals wounds found on a dead body. In a way it provides sustenance - for the dead. Like the "living water" - for the living.
No heroes, no leviathan - only dead water.
Discord among people and within them.
"What!? I'm just bla-bla-ing"
Interestingly, the "dead water" motif found in Slavic folklore is more than just a substance deadly for living creatures. It transforms the living into the dead, true, but it also affects the dead, for example it heals wounds found on a dead body. In a way it provides sustenance - for the dead. Like the "living water" - for the living.
No heroes, no leviathan - only dead water.
Discord among people and within them.
"What!? I'm just bla-bla-ing"
It trickles into life itself, not killing it. Confusing, messing things up, blurring, playing tricks, deceiving - a dizzying and disorienting sight - a glimpse of the chaos of the Walpurgisnacht. Existence doesn't end there, but light and clarity do.
This quote have long since found it's place in my head:
"it's very rude to look at and judge a man's soul the way you're judging Ippolit. You have no tenderness, only truth, that makes it unfair."
Prince Myshkin's response is also great:
"I think you are being unfair to me," he said. "I don't find anything bad in his thinking that way, because everyone is inclined to think that way; besides, maybe he didn't think at all, but he merely wanted... he wanted to meet people for the last time, to deserve their respect and love; those are very good feelings, only somehow nothing turned out right; it's his sickness, and something else as well." (italics are mine-KK)
The last sentence reminds me of another great quote from Tarkovsky's Solaris about the "hallucinations" being a result of an alien hostile interference:
"No... It has something to do with conscience."
This quote have long since found it's place in my head:
"it's very rude to look at and judge a man's soul the way you're judging Ippolit. You have no tenderness, only truth, that makes it unfair."
Prince Myshkin's response is also great:
"I think you are being unfair to me," he said. "I don't find anything bad in his thinking that way, because everyone is inclined to think that way; besides, maybe he didn't think at all, but he merely wanted... he wanted to meet people for the last time, to deserve their respect and love; those are very good feelings, only somehow nothing turned out right; it's his sickness, and something else as well." (italics are mine-KK)
The last sentence reminds me of another great quote from Tarkovsky's Solaris about the "hallucinations" being a result of an alien hostile interference:
"No... It has something to do with conscience."
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