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Edited by CrazzySnipe55: 2/17/2013 12:04:44 AM
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ARG Poems: Earth's Life, Traveler's Perspective--Updated w/ Day 6 Speculation

And by "Traveler's Perspective", I mean the "you" in the poems is [url=http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/186ndt4l58u2fjpg/original.jpg]The Traveler[/url]. Here me out: [quote]Day 1: "The best voices -- the voices that truly matter -- never allow themselves to be heard." This refers to the fact that The Traveller has been influencing the Earth since its inception without ever being discovered or "taking credit", as it were. "Your voice moves as whispers, murmurs, and urges inside larger winds." Again, subtly, but consistently, and constantly affecting the Earth. "Wise and sly and perfect, your instructions dop, leaving nothing but the hard sweet rime of enlightenment." I think this refers to the fact that the poems start from the point where The Traveler first makes contact with the Last City, and all the rest of the poems are flashbacks leading back to the present, which would be the first poem. We start en medias res and then get worked back up to that point so as to have some context.[/quote] [quote]Day 2: Although some people say that they think this poem describes Mars, I think it better describes Precambrian ("pre life") Earth. It talks about life waiting inside the world's bones, as if life is about to come upon the Earth but it has not yet done so. Everything seems to describe the state of the Earth when it was still well-in its "forming" stage. And you, The Traveler, are watching from a distance, watching all these "careful disasters" happen. They are "careful" because while they are catastrophic natural disasters, they are necessary to have the planet form into the life-bearing ball of liquid it will be one day. "The rose has blossomed", meaning life is just beginning. This is probably in reference to the bacteria that start to form around this time, denoting the starting point of life on Earth. [/quote] [quote]Day 3: "One face is blistered, the other plunged into a brutal chill. Is this how it's always been? / You remember hot oceans, nourishing atmosphere." It seems we're jump-cutting to different points of the Earth's life, as we are now at the part of Earth's life just after a meteor has struck the Earth and ended the life of the dinosaurs. The first face is the Earth (blistered from the meteor) and the second face is the moon (plunged into a brutal chill because it's no longer being accosted by meteorites every half-second). "But something transpired, kicked what was wet and fertile into space, stealing away everything of value." When meteors hit shit, shit goes boom and flies into the air (also space). "Or perhaps what thrived here for a day or for ten million years decided to leave, peeling its wet organics off the bones." I think The Traveler may make not-so-regular check ins with its buddy, Earth, and may be coming a few thousand years after the meteor's impact, and therefore is unsure of exactly what happened. The name part I'm still fuzzy on. Maybe the name of this planet we call Earth? Maybe The Traveler is the creator of Earth (a la the planet creators from THGTTG), and "union between the past and the future" could be the end of the first era of beings, and the beginning of the second.[/quote] [quote]Day 4: "Even the largest body lets itself be pushed where it needs to be, seduced into nice, warm loving orbits. Persistence is key." Rather than this being Jupiter (RED HERRING ALERT), I believe this is describing the decomposition of Pangaea into continents which are moved by the Earth's plates in a "warm loving orbit". The orbit is warm because of the super-heated mantle (mantle, right? mantle? yeah, mantle.) which causes this "orbit". "Seafloors transform and then yank themselves skyward, shattering the icy crust as new worlds awaken inside the swirling depths." Time-warp! We're now at the end of the Ice Age. "You build homes of ocean laid over stone; giant and tin, surrounding this half-born sun ripped by storms and supersonic wind." At this point in time, you (The Traveler) are trying to make life happen on other planets too, like Mars, maybe, which at this point probably still has lots of water on it, too. "You deliver your last orders to an army that needs nothing anymore -- not instruction, courage or even prayers -- and then you hide again." With the planets' assemblies basically on auto-pilot, The Traveler need not do anymore and thus goes back into hiding to return in a few million or thousand or whatever years. "In ecstasy they search for you". You = Traveler. Traveler = world creator. Traveler = "divine" creator. They = people. Blown = ming.[/quote] [quote]Day 5: "You see history hidden between the barren rocks and within the high acid clouds. You see ruin emerging from where it has always been, ready to claim its birthright." Goddammit humanity! The Earth was going just fiiiiine before you had to go and -blam!- it up with your pollution and your acid clouds and whatnot. "A new ocean emerges, thick and salty and hot, from springs and geysers that drench the dead ground." The Traveler has to give us a new freaking ocean because we -blam!-ed the last one up. "You draw deep inside, seeking direction, truth..." PLEASE! Don't be assholes to my planet this time.[/quote] [quote]Day 6: "You have been pushed to this place, for a reason." For one reason or another, the Traveler has been forced somewhere away from where it previously was. "A cold giant shows its night face to you." Presumably, the Traveler is now on the outer reaches of our solar system. "Distant moons slide past; icy little comets enslaved by a splendid master." Well, this is most definitely not Pluto, so it's either Jupiter (which has a staggering 67 moons), Saturn (which has like 7 + rings), Neptune, (which has 13), or Uranus (cleaning up not-too-shabbily with 27). "The lightning bolts and high clouds are swept away, and then you burrow into a sea of liquid hydrogen that boils out of the long gash." We are most definitely speaking of Jupiter, which both has storms which produce lightning, and a liquid metallic hydrogen layer below the gaseous layer sitting on top of the planet. I'm assuming this means that the Traveler is going down through the Great Red Spot Storm Phenomenon Thing (unless there's another "long gash" on Jupiter), and into the lower level of liquid hydrogen. "You put yourself on the perfect trajectory, and for a fraction of an instant you allow yourself the luxury of confidence." I may be reaching here, but perhaps the Traveler is attempting to commit 'suicide', in a sense, being in a perfect trajectory with the solid core of Jupiter. The luxury of confidence would be the idea that the Earth either no longer thinks about the idea of or no longer needs the Traveler, which it realizes is not true and so ceases its descent and returns to above the liquid hydrogen. "Eyes that never close gaze everywhere and at everything. You see them in their hiding place. // And they can see you, too." The Traveler has gone up, above the clouds of Jupiter and become visible. This is, perhaps, the first time that the Traveler has been seen by the people of Earth.[/quote] So, whatta you guys think?

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