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Anna S.
eliade
21 August 2003 @ 05:51 pm
ghhhhhhhh.  
That's the sound you make when you're so dazed you can't even get a vowel in your "guh."

So I was rewatching Laura's Beatitudes vid and I noticed again the line usd for the clips of Tara: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." And that's a well-known quote, of course, but it gave me this frissoning little chill as I "read" it differently for the first time ever, realized it could have a different meaning. Because Tara did inherit the earth, right? She was buried in it.

Maybe this eerie double-reading is familiar already to everyone else who's known that saying since childhood, but I'm pretty blown away.
 
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sidherian: my fandom still loves Tarasidherian on August 21st, 2003 08:19 pm (UTC)
Hi there
I've just added you because you came up on my 50 closest non-friends list (but don't be under any obligation to add in return).
I've never seen that vid you mention, but yes, that double reading is chilling.
Poor Tara......
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Lillounge_lily on August 21st, 2003 10:45 pm (UTC)
Because Tara did inherit the earth, right? She was buried in it.

I'd never considered it that way before, but now I believe it's the only way I will ever think of it. I find it strangely beautiful. Thanks for pointing that out.
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direaliete on August 22nd, 2003 03:37 am (UTC)
An odd question
I found out about you and your writings (mmm...Sentinel slash !) via flambeau's friends list.
And I have a question, but please feel free not to answer if it's too personal or something. Is your username related to the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade ? I only ask because I'm a Romanian girl very fond of his writings and was curious :-)
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Anna S.eliade on August 24th, 2003 07:23 pm (UTC)
Re: An odd question
No relation. :>) I borrowed "eliade" as my user name more or less at random, because I couldn't think of anything else and I had one of his books in front of me at the time.
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Killakillabeez on August 22nd, 2003 05:43 am (UTC)
So I was rewatching Laura's Beatitudes vid and I noticed again the line usd for the clips of Tara: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

Oh, cool, someone else thought of that! Yes, I really got a chill from that when I saw the vid, but a good chill. I had a little trouble with the idea of Giles and Joyce as peacemakers (to me, Willow and Tara would be the peacemakers, but then I don't know where she would have put Giles and Joyce *g*) but other than that, I adored the choices she made for the lyrics, and that Tara bit was one of the coolest.
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laurashapiro on August 22nd, 2003 06:05 pm (UTC)
See, I love observations like this, because I never in a million years would have thought of it myself, and I *made* the damned thing. (:

Cree-pee. Cool.
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Anna S.eliade on August 22nd, 2003 07:43 pm (UTC)
The next time I watched it, after making that post, I got an entirely different reading--I noticed that on "earth" you went to Willow and were probably meaning that Willow is the earth, a grounded and earthy prize for Tara.

But that's what art is all about: layers. :)
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