@ moritheil: Impressive! You caught an allusion in a blog post that even the writer didn’t notice! Remember what you were saying about the writer’s personal opinion seeping into their analysis? Well, I agreed with you then, and it looks like you just proved yourself right.

My intention, of course, was to bring to light the fact that Saku’s grandfather understood the feelings of his teenage grandson, despite the man’s countless years of experience. His marriage wound up failing to fulfill his needs, so from his perspective, it was something that theoretically could have destroyed his childhood image of love. Of course, that “unstated assumption” was made because I did indeed make an assumption – a slip of the tongue, if you will – but for the purpose of the post, I was trying to get at the different views of the characters, rather than myself. At least I know you were paying attention :P

The unstated assumption, of course, is that marriage is inherently loveless. Could there be a more telling condemnation of our societal views towards marriage?

It took about, oh, five pages, maybe, before I first started choking up with tears at this. I think it’s best read all at once, in one sitting (which I was unable to accomplish when I read it), just to let the whole thing wash over you without interruption or avoidable delay. And I think it’s best that way simply because it is a portrait, as you say, of pure love, or perhaps even pure life. Life is soaring heights and treacherous depths and everything in between, and it’s called “flatlining” for more than the obvious reason.

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