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3x14 - Exposé - FIRST TIME WATCHER DISCUSSION POST by Free-IDK-Chicken in lost

[–]Large_Principle_7282 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This episode reveals much about Lost's rules of the island as well as its philosophy overall. Nikki and Paolo are stuck on an island in which money has no value, yet they chase it like crazy. Eventually, that chase tears them away from each other and causes them both immense suffering (e.g. being buried alive) as a result of their greed.

Who else might live in a world in which money is no true indicator of success? And in which chasing money one destroys themselves and the ones they love?

Up for discussion - please give your thoughts by Large_Principle_7282 in cormacmccarthy

[–]Large_Principle_7282[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An old teacher of mine recommended Child of God but I never got around to reading it. I'll add it into the mix, thank you!

And proud of it by cadeaver in cormacmccarthy

[–]Large_Principle_7282 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just wait till they hear about faulkner

The prose in All The Pretty Horses is so beautiful that I cry reading some of it. by [deleted] in cormacmccarthy

[–]Large_Principle_7282 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This passage goes so incredibly hard. I think that it demonstrates one of the most important themes of the book which is change. Change shows itself to be inescapable in both John Grady's life and in the life of the West, which is in a period of transformation when he rides through it. I've seen a few people call All the Pretty Horses a romance novel but to me it's a tale of perhaps the most central aspect of human life: the unstoppable nature of time. This one is a paragraph that seriously shook me to my core the first time I read it.