Dark Sentiments Season 9 — Day 20: In Memoriam
Posted By Randy on October 20, 2018
“Throughout this series I’ve applied the title of “dark sentiment” to a variety of emotions, events, human acts, portrayals, and situations. Tonight we’ll talk about the darkest sentiment of all – True Love.
“True Love is the darkest of sentiments both because it has the power to motivate those blessed enough to be possessed by it to the performance of feats that are incomprehensible to the great unwashed, and because, in its truest form, it does not exist to most of the world. In that, it is truly dark because True Love is only understood by the few who are granted its epiphany by the Gods …” ~ Dark Sentiments Season 1 — Day 28
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment, In Memoriam, is the tale of an aged horloger who has turned his talents with clockworks to recapturing the most perfect moment of his life. A widower near the ending of his days, he spends his nights crafting in perfect detail a perfect memory of a perfect dance. It is also the tale of a little clockwork musician who must abandon the love of his short life to be True to his creator’s dream.
A Merlot tonight I think.
True love can be most destructive when it is not revealed. Here, the exquisiteness of devotion and sincerity in the heart of a simple man. I see him pass in utter repose knowing he is to be with his ‘one’ and the petit manequin as the spirit of his life.
BTW, you must be in some sort of ‘channel’ to find these things. Overall, excellent score, Foley, graphics, …
Good way to start the day, expecially for us ‘old folks.’
Thank you Steve for your valued and always enlivening observations and commentary.
In fact, my search for Dark Sentiments fodder, as well as Long Winter’s Night coming in late December, runs all year through, and the only “channel”, really, is the one my mind travels down as it negotiates the winds of the Thing Itself as it reveals itself to me.