Your opinion and mine are very close when it comes to this story--close enough that I felt I was plagiarizing you a bit while writing my comment. Ah well, I'm sure we'll differ soon enough.
Even in the dark, Mulder finds the shortcut to Daddy's house. It's not my doing; he remembers it. There's a constant seething in Mulder's brain. It pushes me back, like the wind holding a sailboat offshore.
This bit really interested me too, although I'm not sure that I interpreted it as a compliment. I saw it as a way of saying that Mulder's brain is so busy and overactive, so wrapped up in his own speculations, that in a sense it's not capable of making room for possibilities that he hasn't already seized upon himself. Mulder is about making new hypotheses, even if he doesn't know much to start with; Scully, the scientist, is more about observing and seeing how the world works before passing judgment on it. So that makes her more open to these things, I guess? More passive? Or just more psychic? I don't know, really.
Glad that you liked it. I thought that you probably would!
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Date: 2007-12-05 08:48 pm (UTC)Even in the dark, Mulder finds the shortcut to Daddy's
house. It's not my doing; he remembers it. There's a
constant seething in Mulder's brain. It pushes me back,
like the wind holding a sailboat offshore.
This bit really interested me too, although I'm not sure that I interpreted it as a compliment. I saw it as a way of saying that Mulder's brain is so busy and overactive, so wrapped up in his own speculations, that in a sense it's not capable of making room for possibilities that he hasn't already seized upon himself. Mulder is about making new hypotheses, even if he doesn't know much to start with; Scully, the scientist, is more about observing and seeing how the world works before passing judgment on it. So that makes her more open to these things, I guess? More passive? Or just more psychic? I don't know, really.
Glad that you liked it. I thought that you probably would!