by cmoon » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:58 pm
I'll share this one idea about Nostalgia again while we're at it (and it is hard to imagine that Nostalgia isn't informed by it):
That during the troubles with Apollo 13, her crew fought desperately even knowing a safe return was probably impossible. They hoped instead, if nothing else, to return their ashes to the atmosphere of the earth, suddenly understanding that a whole planet could be their home and they could belong to it. I feel like there is a whole level of nostalgia that people might have problem picking up on. Certainly space travelers have come to feel differently about the earth than most of us who dwell on it--unlike them we have not seen the scope and limitations of the world first hand, nor the boundless space which surrounds and nearly swallows it. This one really crushes me, since Earth is so completely ruined in that story, but still humans can't forget where they've come from.
"I'm in my own head now, and it's where I should be" --Snitter