Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Trauma?

Trauma isn't physical but mental. Trauma is having to relive those events and fully come to terms with them or understand them. Tancred accidentally killed Clorinda while she was disguised as his enemy. After her death, he goes into the forest and slashes a tree with his sword. At the cut, blood starts to leak out and he his Clorinda's voice telling him that he was wounded her again. Trauma isn't experience at the time of the event, but later on when we are reminded of the pain or loss.

Trauma makes a reciprocal relationship with the survivors and victims, the listeners and survivors. The victims need the survivors to tell their stories and the survivors need to tell the stories to go. They live off of each other. The same with the listeners and the survivors. The survivors need to tell someone their story. So that they can fully come to grasp with the trauma. For the listeners to understand the whole trauma event, they must listen to the survivors and sometimes feel the horror, pain, or loss. It's like putting yourself in their place.

Lot's family was told to leave Sodom and not look back. Lot's wife couldn't fight the temptation and looked. She was either so petrify at what she saw that she turned into a pillar of salt or she was punished and turned into a pillar of salt. But the point is by sharing her trauma, we should become her and experience the same outcome.

This link is a song by Prince Alla titled Lot's Wife. It has a nice beat. You have to listen to the whole thing.
http://www.imeem.com/coblack/music/od-ucEsz/prince_alla_lots_wife/

Then there is a comedian named Bob Smiley. He has a joke about Sam's Club having to buy everything in bulk. There's a mention of Lot's wife. It's like 40 seconds in.
http://www.imeem.com/popmusic18/music/ewX_XJtU/bob_smiley_lots_wife_and_coffeeits_ive_got_a_funny_f/

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