ending
does anyone know the last thing N said at the end i missed it...
sharei might be mistaken but i think it was 'on a clear day you can see right round the world from up here'.
N had said the same when they watched the fireworks diplay on level 7 earlier on.
The phrase could alsp be interpretted as that the story has come full circle. It bagan with with a norm and a dribbler and although they went on a journey they end back up as in the beginning with a norm and a dribbler. As to whether either Poppy or N really had a problem in the first place see my other post on the explain the ending thread.
She says that because in the book, Poppy Shakespeare, it's said that the higher floor you're on in The Abaddon (the hospital they're in) the more mental you are, and the lower your chances of ever being discharged or even allowed to leave the hospital. And The Abaddon is an extremely tall building, and one character said that from one of the top windows you'd be able to see all round the world and back.
I don't know if that was ever mentioned in the TV version, I missed the first half hour of it :/
"I got one of those things mice and hamsters go round and round in."
"A wheel?"
"No, a blender."
"You can see right round the world from up here. When it's clear."
In the book ending though, that line was the only one spoken by Poppy during that scene.
so the more of a 'dribbler' you are (the worse you are, mentally), the more your chance of seeing all around the world and back?
nice idea. im going to have to read the book!
Huh? I thought it was a simple reference to the varying degrees of 'fog' or hazyness of mental illness. On a clear day a mentally ill person will have clarety of thought and clearer understanding of the world around them.
shareTo quote Terence McKenna:
"There is an area of the mind which could be called unsane, beyond sanity and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity, you go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity."