1.14 Trust, Darkness, and Ideals

A motorcycle — Sunny day — Continuing the serial — I hate manipulation — Playing games with people — Relevance to Field of Dreams — Simply a good man — Superman is meant to be a completely goodhearted person — His backstory — From another planet, but raised by really good people — A valuable concept — Many writers don’t know what to do with this — Moving on — The connecting link — Whether you can trust someone or not — People reveal themselves over time — Assumptions can be telling — Nearly every superhero ends up being a compromised conception — A more innocent time in comics — Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner’s character) would not crumble — Not violent — Rarer than we may realise — How much happens behind closed doors — A line in an early Sherlock Holmes story — Watson, Holmes, and the countryside — Sherlock has no romantic conception of the countryside — There terrible deeds can continue year after year undetected and unsuspected — Isolated places — Abuse — Real life — Circling back to Field of Dreams — A sunny film — Moving — Also scenes of twilight — The word “magical” — Interlude — The people who keep life going may also feel broken — Doing it regardless — Appreciating comedians and the ways they help — Norm Macdonald — Everyone has both dark and light sides — Anything that makes you feel more normal in a bad situation — Do I feel whole or completely together? — Isolation and loneliness are not what a human life is supposed to be — Everyone more or less breaks down at some point — Let it happen — Bending so as not to break — The limit of Ray’s aggression — Strength can often be found in unexpected places — One thing sure to worsen depression or anxiety — The real heroes — The unassuming and non-underlined nobility of the main character — Ray and his wife Annie grew up in the 60s — Part of the hippie generation — Those ideals — Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella — Carrying the ideals into adulthood — The essentially teen dream of just flower power and making peace signs — What creating peace actually takes — Lovely humorous strain — Ray tried to like sitar music — People who aim to project enlightenment — Dalai Lama cookie story recap — Breaking a monastic rule — Maturity — To be continued