On Pain

Assignment: Please choose a passage from the essay on one of the following themes: pain, technology, photography, detachment, sexuality

Write out the passage. Interpret the passage and explain how it relates to one of the other works we have looked at. Explain why you chose this passage.

 

 

Passage: 

       In such a situation, pain remains the only measure promising a certainty of insights. Wherever values can no longer hold their ground, the movement toward pain endures as an astonishing sign of  the times; it betrays the negative mark of a metaphysical structure. (p. 47)

 

 Theme: Pain

 

Interpretation: 

      Once someone feels pain, everything becomes more vivid and one can see things in many different ways, trying to understand it all. Once we no longer can see the good or "valuable" part of a certain person or situation, we automatically feel pain and move towards the pain as it has some type of comfort knowing that we can confide in it.

      I feel that this passage relates to the "Blue Angels" because Rath was in love with Lola Lola and once he started to see how she was changing he right away felt pain and turned to pain. He used to pain as an insight to see how she was "flirty" with every man, because it was part of her job and this pain had enraged him. 

I chose this passage because it justifies how once someone feels pain, their vision becomes more clear as to how they view things in the future and the way that their perceptions are now skewed because of feeling pain.