Thursday, October 4, 2007
Opera in the Mountains
This story is incredibly fascinating, in a horrifying way. With wars like vietnam, and any situation of extreme terror a certain mystery is felt about the situation, something beyond what humans normally feel and see. The mountan story about the troops who were sent there to record sound and report anything strange gives off this feeling, being far far away from home, in a strange jungle of death, these young men go crazy hearing an opera, and band playing right above them in the mountains. This shows what war does to people, it drives them away from reason and what they think is real and true. It brings them to the edge of the human mind and what it can contain. To me that is what this story conveys, the incredible capacity of fear and stress that the mind can contain.
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An interesting post. I agree thought. If you consider sound and music throughout the novel, for instance with Mary Anne and her confrentation with the "Greenies". Fossie was basically driven to insanity as he sat outside waiting for Mary Anne and then suddenly the music made it's way into his conciousness. The music and the sounds it seems are one of the worst quialities of the war. As well as the smell, but that's another topic.
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