Oct 31, 2009
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Bury it deep. Some pains are so painful that the only way to survive them is to forget. Perhaps if it doesn’t leave a scar, it hasn’t healed yet.
But I think the thing that drives us crazy is not knowing. And sometimes we have to make things up to help put us at peace. To rid some of the worry, some of the guilt. The most chilling part was when he rearranged the letters to say, bury me.
I was talking to G about this movie. I wonder if bury me was more than the literal bury my body, but if it was also permission to let her go, to move on with his life. For more than half his life Sam held on to Silvy and I wonder if coming back was about being able to move forward.