Re: Alive or Dead?

[Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@nursepo.medctr.ucla.edu>]

IEDSRI@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In response to the question, "Does she live or die?", IED vaguely recalls
> Kate saying that "there has to be some kind of hope in there."   The quote
> given by Andisheh doesn't really settle the issue of whether the character
> actually lives or dies.  ("Well, that's really meant to be the rescue of the
> whole situation, where now suddenly out of all this darkness and weight comes
> light. You know, the weightiness is gone and here's the morning, and it's
> meant to feel very positive and bright and uplifting from the rest of dense,
> darkness of the previous track.")  Kate's characteristically elliptical
> syntax  (the "rescue of the whole situation") suggests something other than
> "the girl's rescue from the water".  This fan's reading of the above is that
> it tends to confirm IED's view that the light represents hope, though not
> necessarily certain salvation.

I completely agree (despite having mentioned this quote earlier 
in support of a 'rescue') that 'rescue' can just as easily mean 
being lifted up by the hand of God. She is still being ambiguous 
even in the quote. The Morning Fog features very hopeful, 
brightly arranged music. Its lyrics are even more optimistic. 
But that does not in any way determine on which side of 'the 
veil' the character in TNW lands.

Robb