[ SECRET POST #1986 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1986 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 119 secrets from Secret Submission Post #284.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0- not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - take it to comments ], [ 1 2 - going to have to be a little more subtle than this ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: WARNING: SPOILERS

[(Anonymous)]

Oh jesus no. Really. Shut up. It's not The Island, ffs, it's a metaphorical examination on mortality and loss and how humans cope with the knowledge that they are going to die and lose everything, all the knowledge they've accumulated, all their possessions, and most significantly all the people they've loved and relationships they've had.

The books was written by Kazuro Ishiguro, who is a literary novelist and not remotely a genre writer. It's one of the most meaningful, horribly beautiful and honest books I've ever read.

It is not "about" clones. The cloning is used as a metaphor for the human condition.

Re: WARNING: SPOILERS

[starphotographs]

THANK you! All of this. :D

Veering off topic a bit, I think a lot of things in sci-fi/spec-fic that don't make literal sense should be examined on a metaphorical level. Because that's... Well, one of the things that type of fiction is for after all. I think a book set in current reality could say "hey, you know, you're going to die TOO" outright, and it just wouldn't hit on the visceral level that Never Let Me Go seems to hit a lot of people on, because it's easy to kind of detach from such a common concept. But a story like that kind of forces you to think about it for what it is, without ever telling you that you should be thinking about it. (Which is another thing that annoyed me about the movie! That "we all complete" line was so tacked-on and PSA-like. Gah!)

(I... Am a fan of this book. I'm sure none of you could tell. XD)