God and Goddess that was a wierd ride.
I just read it in one go, i finished about half an hour ago and that was really intense. I nearly fell to sleep a couple of times because i only had about an hours sleep last night but i made myself go all the way through and i'm glad that i did.
Wow i feel like i could spend hours writing this post but i'll keep it as short as possible.
Erm.....Ned at the end was like a man that had just been pushed too far, a man that had so many problems that he couldn't just sit on them, he had to have answers and he even went so far as to risk being an anti-person in order to get his truth. He'd been pushed so far that being an anti-person didn't even register anymore, because everything was shit and the answers where the only viable thing left for him.
His Cat, to me, was the symbol of his soul. I don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere else here because i've not read this thread yet, i'm kind of getting down whats in my head at the moment, but in Egyptian the word 'Ka', which is very close to Cat when spoken, is the soul, or part of it and at the end when the last thing is written : 'It is love' it was for me Ned finally getting his soul back. It was a really touching moment.
As far as the rest of it goes, well i'll have to read through it again i think, but when the Scottish hand operative died, the woman, it made me cry a little, it was just so fucking sad.
It also seemed like he'd made the I-Life his ally and he possibly had the ability to heal, like when he put his hand to the guy in bed who'd been in the dumper truck, it looked like he'd gone through the Abyss, he'd broken his way into the Abyss, confronted the terrible Mother or whatever it was and had come back purged of all the dirt and pain that he'd gone through.
Brilliant writing and art, a real mad ride, the story kind of overloaded me with grief and chaos until i cried at the hand operative dying of cancer at the end and i really didn't think it would get me into that state, i was a bit shocked. Obviously the other guy, his stand-in was his shadow, the part that he had to eventually confront in order to go further. The subway on the final page could represent a lot of things, i see it as the darkness or unkown of the future, but he had his soul and his life back, he'd finished his work with the hand and could go onwards with the knowledge that he was healed and that he had a knowledge and an ability of his own to take him through that unkown.
Amazing story, and i'm sure i'll learn a lot more when i go through it again and read what's here. I'm really happy that i haven't come here confused and looking for answers though, i feel that i got my own meaning's from the whole thing and i feel content, so maybe this will unfold as a real gem as more fit's into place that i didn't see the first time around.
Wherever the Morrison is and if he ever reads this : that was genius, thankyou Grant, it must have put you through hell writing it, i'm glad you survived and came back with fire for us!
Having a very faint idea of how much he connects and lives out some of his stories, that must of been hard, hard work.
Just to finish, i know the above has probably been covered and is old news but i just had to get it down as like a reminder of how i felt after reading it for the first time. |
