Yeah, I believe he's learned something about hope from the Doctor. Now I remember 'all human wisdom is summed up in these two words--Wait and hope' from 'Count of Monte Cristo'...
Yes, Jack's story is about how our masks sometimes end up becoming our real faces. Our lies are in our truth, and our truth is also in our lies. (The Doctor must find this fascinating.) Maybe this is what we're. Maybe it's only coincidence. Maybe it's karma. Name is about identity. It can be glory and it can be a curse. And a false name can even be more significant than a real one, because we get to choose it, so it can be consciously/subconsciously meaningful to us. I can see this being a brilliant book theme. Some of my favourite books share some same themes with TW and Jack, too. Like the theme 'out of time'. I used to read everything written by this French novelist called Patrick Modiano. Though Modiano himself was born after the World War Two, his heroes always have a strange obession about 1940s(not in a Blitz London though, but in a Paris under German Occupation). In one of his novel, the hero is a man who tries to retrieve his memory, which was lost due to unknown incidents in 1941. In another one, the hero goes back to 1942 to his Jewish father, who abandoned him when he was a teenager. His novels are always about nostalgia and identity.
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Date: 2007-03-01 04:24 am (UTC)Now I remember 'all human wisdom is summed up in these two words--Wait and hope' from 'Count of Monte Cristo'...
Yes, Jack's story is about how our masks sometimes end up becoming our real faces. Our lies are in our truth, and our truth is also in our lies. (The Doctor must find this fascinating.) Maybe this is what we're. Maybe it's only coincidence. Maybe it's karma.
Name is about identity. It can be glory and it can be a curse. And a false name can even be more significant than a real one, because we get to choose it, so it can be consciously/subconsciously meaningful to us.
I can see this being a brilliant book theme.
Some of my favourite books share some same themes with TW and Jack, too. Like the theme 'out of time'. I used to read everything written by this French novelist called Patrick Modiano. Though Modiano himself was born after the World War Two, his heroes always have a strange obession about 1940s(not in a Blitz London though, but in a Paris under German Occupation). In one of his novel, the hero is a man who tries to retrieve his memory, which was lost due to unknown incidents in 1941. In another one, the hero goes back to 1942 to his Jewish father, who abandoned him when he was a teenager. His novels are always about nostalgia and identity.