the furies as an oath
the furies as trapping yourself in the oath you made
the furies as a haunting for breaking an oath
the furies as a punishment for breaking the mores, the customs necessary for living in society
the furies as the misery who befalls those who betray their human rationality for the base desires of vengeance, jealousy and anger
the furies as self-loathing that smothers you in the night the dark
i think people understand the furies as the skills and while i have seen very good reads on that i don't naturally gravitate towards that interpreation. the original name of the game being no truce with the furies makes me think a lot about why one might know the furies and not want a truce.
the furies punish those who break the social contract, or really any other contract, on word and on paper. but the thing is that the contract that we are giving - our position to the Moralintern, the oath taken for the RCM, all the expectations of history, the world having to remain like this? the only way out of this hole we have dug ourselves into is imagining a different way to be, that may not exist within those socially acceptable bounds (see: the plasm being a real thing in elysium, generated by the power of millions of hopes and thoughts of a better world kept in line by capitalist realism).
a truce with the furies, then: keep going as you are. keep working a job that kills you. keep dreaming of the glories past, be it love or easier times. step slowly, with the certainty that someday you might get somewhere but not counting on seeing it in yor lifetime.
if you break this contract, they will despise you. they will hunt you like the animal you are who dares to grieve, and feel anger, and covet a better world, you've lost your humanity and your rationality in rejecting the promises of capital. the furies will haunt you.
r.s. thomas says there is no truce with the furies because the furies are reflected back to you through a mirror, and the tragedy of it all is that all they reflect will only be a part of you, never the whole. you will always look at yourself and be haunted by all the things you did wrong.
elysium, the part of the underworld reserved for the blessed and the fortunate, is surrounded by lethe - the river of forgetfulness the invisible ever-growing invisible odourless Pale devouring the world you know who said that. the clearest water, ever so tempting for the dead who thirst for life that tricks you into drinking more of its waters as you drink, and only if you forgot everything would you be allowed back into the world. wouldn't it be sweet, to leave elysium behind, to forget it all, to no longer be haunted by the furies in the mirror, harry-boy?
but even the clearest water, if deep enough, can drown. and drown you did, and came back to life and met a guy with a mnemosyne, sorry, mnemotechnique, notebook who refuses to forget the past so he can remain in Elysium.
(sorry, sorry, my bad, i just thought, you know mnemosyne like the river of memory that keeps the dead in the underworld and the living capable of lives without oaths to hades, but surely this means nothing)
the only way to stop being haunted by the mistakes of the past is to die - or maybe just to remember and keep living anyway.
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Thanks to this beautiful post from @peridotsarelongterm and @cursedtrekedits, I bring you Mother Horta's disco hit, "No Kill I!"
I’m made of silicon, I am petrified
I will protect the children, I remain right by their side
And I have spent so many nights thinking how you did us wrong
And I grew strong
I learned to vaporize your throng
Because you’re here
From outer space
I just crawled in to find you looting all our pergium in haste
I should have melted all the rock, I should have made sure that you’d flee
If I’d have known for just one second that you’d hurt my kids and me
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
Because I’ll liquidate the floor
Weren’t you the one who broke my eggs and made me cry?
You think I’d crumble
You think I’m just a pizza pie?
Oh no kill I, I must survive
For as long as Horta babies hatch you know I’ll stay alive
I’ve got all my life to live
My digestion’s corrosive
So no kill I
I will survive
Hey, hey
It took all the strength I had when you zapped my hump
After I’d stolen your reactor’s circulation pump
Into the Chamber of the Ages, not to hide myself away
And now you say
That you can cure my rainy day
And you see me
Somebody new
I like your Vulcan ears but I am not in love with you
The end of things cannot begin, tomorrow’s vault contains the key
If you break hundreds of my eggs then of your men I’ll burn fifty
Go on now, go
Walk out the door
Just turn around now
Or I’ll irradiate your core
Weren’t you the one who tried to meld and shouted “pain!”
Think I’m a devil
I’ve got a heart and bigger brain
Oh no kill I, I will survive
You may see a big lasagna, I’ll get pasta you to strive
Got eternity to birth, I’m not questioning my worth
So no kill I
I will survive…
Oh…
Okay, you’ll stay
We’ll make a deal
You’ll take the minerals
That we don’t need to make a meal
I’m dancing even though you cannot see my feet
Now that your doctor
Healed me with some concrete
You no kill I, I did survive
And we taught a moral lesson through the magic of sci-fi
Differences don’t mean wrong, that’s the Mother Horta’s song
So no kill I
I will survive
No kill I!
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