[ SECRET POST #6071 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6071 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]



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[The Beach]
























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 48 secrets from Secret Submission Post #868.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[erinptah]

...I haven't read the book, but surely that would be a reference to "US soldiers descending into savagery when they were sent to fight the Vietnam War, in the specific political and military context of the time," not "savagery related to generally living in the country of Vietnam at all"?

[tabaqui]

Is that what this is getting at? I admit, the secret confused me.

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[(Anonymous)]

I feel like there’s some vague supernatural stuff in a lot of those books. The jungle reveals your inner darkness and all that. It’s a lot like the vague supernatural stuff in Lord of the Flies, but I can accept that more in a fictional island.

Re: OP

[tabaqui]

Hrmmmmm. Okay.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

What are you talking about? The protagonist is obsessed with finding an 'unspoiled' paradise in South East Asia because the tourist boom (of which is is a part) has westernised/familiarised/destroyed the most accessible parts of Cambodia and Vietnam. It's about a guy with a lonely planet guide book and a backpack complaining about all the other lonely planet backpackers getting in his way on the Khaosan Road.

The community he intrudes on eventually collapses because he tips the balance into selfishness - he basically wants to be the king of the island and because that is not possible (because he is another western intruder in a long long line of them) he causes its destruction.

It's only "vaguely supernatural" if you think a character thinking "this is like that bit in Platoon, awesome" is supernatural. Nothing unexplainable happens?

Honestly this is such a baffling secret to me that I think I'm being baited

[erinptah]

It would be my first guess. Like, if a character started saying "in the jungles of Vietnam I surrendered to my inner darkness" and they were the right age and nationality for it, I would take that as a euphemism for "I was drafted into the Vietnam War and I committed some war crimes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_Crimes_Working_Group

(Note: I picked a link that doesn't have images, but some other Wikipedia articles on the subject include graphic photos of victims.)

[tabaqui]

Yeah, for sure, me too.