The Passage
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The AVM (Added Value Meaning) - deep themes woven into the Trilogy
Verbaloid
Aug 19, 2015 01:01AM
Cronin in his recent Craft talk at Bluegrass Writing studio (posted on youtube) discloses many interesting things about his own approach to building the story. Namely, he mentions Value Added Meaning (VAM) and Deep Well of Gravity (characters and events like colour balls spinning downwards in a funnel, interacting and mingling, but inevitably pulled down toward the ultimate convergence). This came as no surprise for me, because ‘the Passage’ seems to contain several deep, profound themes that Cronin weaves into the narrative. Those themes, I believe, are the stuff that mess with your dreams, because they are born of, and connect you to, the Universal subconscious, if you want.
1. The Fall from Grace. The Littles in the Sanctuary exist in a kind of bubble of oblivion, which they have to break once they come of age and emerge into the Station.
2. The ‘Who am I’ and ‘We are all alone’ theme, or the universal question: who or what is it, that nameless presence that stares through my eyes at the passing world?
3. How one can be many, and many can be one. The fundamental question of Transcendence. Am I the product of the multitude, or am I the original singularity?
Any more?
1. The Fall from Grace. The Littles in the Sanctuary exist in a kind of bubble of oblivion, which they have to break once they come of age and emerge into the Station.
2. The ‘Who am I’ and ‘We are all alone’ theme, or the universal question: who or what is it, that nameless presence that stares through my eyes at the passing world?
3. How one can be many, and many can be one. The fundamental question of Transcendence. Am I the product of the multitude, or am I the original singularity?
Any more?
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