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Chapter 3 Page 31

Abt_Nihil

on Aug. 22, 2011

For a complete multimedia experience, please read this scene while listening to this.

The whole Mansun thing actually goes all the way back to this page. It must have been in May or June of last year… trying to catch up with Jump, I came across said page, and checked out the referenced song on youtube. It was around midnight when I did that, and I ended up listening to this one song over and over, until around 3am.

So, it's all alejkhan's fault - in fact, she's already acknowledged it on the previous page :P What's not quite as obvious is that the whole "Intergalactic Railway" stuff actually came out of her making me rewatch Galaxy Rangers. So there. It's actually ALL her fault. Deal with it.

Thanks for reading and commenting!

"The second half of the second verse asks what's the root of ambition, what character defect drives you? The line: "I wouldn't care if I was washed up tomorrow" is false bravado, a self-defence mechanism to hide the fear of failure from your ambition. It's just raising some questions about ambition and the futility of it because in the end. The price. The cost. What's left at the end of the day when ambition's drained the last drop out of you? Well I just pictured the view from the stage during a gig. The sea of faces looking back at you, that's what your doing it all for, just them people, and at the end of the day, after you've given everything, well nobody really cares when you're gone, do they?"

Paul Draper (Sept. 2008)


REPLIES:

Nepath, man in black: Thanks!

alejkhan: Haha! Well… that doesn't sound too bad, then. And you could always sue me on Paul Draper's behalf, I guess.

Lem: Jep.