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Arthur Mont

Watchmen - Chapter 7: A brother to dragons

Latest Post: May 1, 2009 at 9:40 PM

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Chapter 7

Not a great chapter really. Some comments:

7- 0 – constantly in the chapter there is this strange opening/cut/line of the eye:

Any ideas what’s the point of it?

7-8-(6-7) Jupiter: “Jesus. That sounds like the sort of costume that could really mess you up.”

Dan: “Is there any other sort?”…”over the years, that Mask’s eaten his brains.”

How does the mask change your life.

7-16-8 The costume is his skin, and his skin his costume, as also Rorschach said.

7-17-5 They look like the lovers sprayed on the buildings, and also like when Dr Manhattan was created (4-8-4).

But also notice how it comes in opposition to the skin/clothes/costumes.

7-19-8 The masked hero created from sexual frustration.

7-25-1 Why is she dressed like that?

For the Men there is supposedly a reason, but what is her reason to look like that? That is, what is her costume? She doesn’t even put on a mask.

7-28-(3-4) – The costumes were what enabled the sex

The costumes is what made it good. It is strange to admit it. To come out of the closet he says. The topic of Homosexuality returns.

End of picture part.

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Watchmen
by Dave Gibbons Alan Moore

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Arthur Mont

May 1, 2009 at 9:40 PM

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Chapter 7 the written part: Blood from the shoulders of Pallas.

Like most of the previous written parts the topic again is writing. Here the question is between Essays and art. Art where blood appears, where emotion appears
"This is not to say that we should cease to establish facts and to verify our information, but merely to suggest that unless those facts can be imbued with the flash of poetic insight then they remain dull gems; semi-precious stones scarcely worth the collecting." (pg. 2 of the written part).
To imbued with the flesh, with the blood, of poetic insight.
Here also comes the point of petrification. The place of horror and screaming. The wise owl doesn't just sit on a tree and tell us wise things as in the Disney tales, but is a frightening predator. Horror is a way to give flesh to knowledge.

So far it was the most theoretical of the written parts, and probably the most boring. But interesting nonetheless. To show the boredom of such writing is also part of its aim.