Thanks -- and I expect I'll put up a post on the mirror thing in the next day or two.
Not crazy at all, I don't think. For sure, "effulgent" is the key word to Spike's whole story. If he wrote that whole poem in FFL, then yes it's at least foreshadowing. But I actually think that the poem in NFA is mostly new except for the last four lines. The first five lines are better than the last four and better than the stuff we heard in LMPTM. And I like the idea that having actually experienced his journey to effulgence, Spike was in a better position to write about it movingly. And retaining the last four lines is a poetic statement about his life as a whole, because without those four lines, he'd not have lived the life that delived the five first lines.
You should write about it though! It could totally go either way. And there's no way that too much can be said about "effulgent".
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Re: A missing observation
Date: 2009-01-29 06:39 am (UTC)Not crazy at all, I don't think. For sure, "effulgent" is the key word to Spike's whole story. If he wrote that whole poem in FFL, then yes it's at least foreshadowing. But I actually think that the poem in NFA is mostly new except for the last four lines. The first five lines are better than the last four and better than the stuff we heard in LMPTM. And I like the idea that having actually experienced his journey to effulgence, Spike was in a better position to write about it movingly. And retaining the last four lines is a poetic statement about his life as a whole, because without those four lines, he'd not have lived the life that delived the five first lines.
You should write about it though! It could totally go either way. And there's no way that too much can be said about "effulgent".