EDIT: this is NOT read as - "since when did my friday night become wishing to die?" NO. this was merely, since when did researching about kafka and blumfeld become my friday night. and then i posted what i thought was an interesting quote. :)
"Human nature, ever changing and as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint. If it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, rending everything asunder, the wall, its bonds, its very self." - kafka
this last one is VERY relevant to Blumfeld, in my view. I believe we can look at the whole story as a window into a life in which he has continually been trapping himself in tighter and tighter into his lifestyle so that he actually freaks out when something changes even in the slightest. so everything that goes wrong is literally his own nature tearing away and the boundaries he's put around it. i think this is a very interesting idea that might not help at all in the actual scene, but is something that is nice to think about. also, i am le tired and things are interesting to me.
OK - soon I'm going to bed, but I had a revelation, and I thought I'd share. This may be obvious, but has actually really helped my character work right at this moment. All of the characters that I play are just as obsessed with screwing up Blumfeld's perfected order as my original Player character in the "routine" sequence. The dog pees and gets dirt, the balls are balls, the maid splashes water, the boy puts the gum on his nose, the girls won't wait to hear all of the directions, the assistant makes a mess of the blocks and entirely overreacts (messing up the order of how things are supposed to go), and the second assistant gets dust everywhere. SO - these characters are BOTH the way Blumfeld views everyone and the way that I (the player) want everyone else to interact with Blumfeld, because my main objective is to mess with the order that is so crucial to him and that traps him in his cage of human nature.
EDIT: this is NOT read as - "since when did my friday night become wishing to die?" NO. this was merely, since when did researching about kafka and blumfeld become my friday night. and then i posted what i thought was an interesting quote. :)
ReplyDelete"By believing passionately in something that still does not
ReplyDeleteexist, we create it." - kafka
"Human nature, ever changing and as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint. If it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, rending everything asunder, the wall, its bonds, its very self." - kafka
ReplyDeletethis last one is VERY relevant to Blumfeld, in my view. I believe we can look at the whole story as a window into a life in which he has continually been trapping himself in tighter and tighter into his lifestyle so that he actually freaks out when something changes even in the slightest. so everything that goes wrong is literally his own nature tearing away and the boundaries he's put around it. i think this is a very interesting idea that might not help at all in the actual scene, but is something that is nice to think about. also, i am le tired and things are interesting to me.
ReplyDeleteOK - soon I'm going to bed, but I had a revelation, and I thought I'd share. This may be obvious, but has actually really helped my character work right at this moment.
ReplyDeleteAll of the characters that I play are just as obsessed with screwing up Blumfeld's perfected order as my original Player character in the "routine" sequence. The dog pees and gets dirt, the balls are balls, the maid splashes water, the boy puts the gum on his nose, the girls won't wait to hear all of the directions, the assistant makes a mess of the blocks and entirely overreacts (messing up the order of how things are supposed to go), and the second assistant gets dust everywhere. SO - these characters are BOTH the way Blumfeld views everyone and the way that I (the player) want everyone else to interact with Blumfeld, because my main objective is to mess with the order that is so crucial to him and that traps him in his cage of human nature.
EDIT: Now the human nature quote is even more relevant with our opening moment. It's like we took the quote and portrayed it through giant jenga.
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