Connecting the Dots

It is always quite interesting and sometimes a little eerie when threads of connections start to pop up, as I am sure most have experienced this to some degree or another. If one sees a movie which might happen to for example make mention of the holy grail, and than all of the sudden, you will be watching a TV show which is completely unrelated to the movie that may make mention of it, or it will show up in a book you are reading, or happen to hear someone else mention and so forth, or come across by chance some other topic that relates to it, and so forth. Perhaps these things are just pure coincidence, and there are others whom would make the case that they are physiological, that the connections were there all along but you simply did not notice it until it was drawn up to your conscious mind, and than you find yourself actively seeking these connections even if you are not aware of looking for them.

I have found myself in just such a situation, rather by random chance and quite without any intention, there appeared to be quite a common theme that threaded throughout the books, or at least many of them which I had been reading over this month. There appeared to be some inter woven ideas throughout each of the books of which I had begun reading at various different times and for various different reasons. The whole idea of Justice/Punishment seemed to be a vast part of much of my reading.

After reading The Gargoyle last month which revolved a good deal around Dante's Inferno, to say the least I was then quite put into the mood to wanting to re-read Dante again, as I was reading Dante, The Fall by Camus was selected as the November book for one of my reading groups, and while I was reading The Fall I could not help but to draw some for similar themes between it and Dante, and than I just started reading Crime and Punishment which I had planed to read a few months ago, and just had to finish up a couple other things. And well the title itself should be quite self-explanatory, to say the least, it also had a lot of parallels to The Fall, though approached the topic in quite a different way. In addition, I have been reading New Arabian Nights for sometime now, by Stevenson, which is a book that has a collection of different stories within it, and the next story within which I had recently started reading, at the start of it, deals with a thief who is then left to contemplating over his theft and the motives and consequences surrounding his actions.

4:23 PM - 11/24/2009 - post comment

For though All are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them. ~The Monk

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