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underneath Guts
Do anyone know the "theme" in guts, or If it is nothing more than just about sexual instincts gone wrong and the struggle to survive? I am asking this because I’m going to illustrate the short story but kinda need the entire spectre of the story. I need something more than just the grotesque, disturbing imagery, because its kinda already there in the text.
anyone know a link or anything it would be great.
I always thought the major theme of Guts was like Chuck says, "the invisble carrot." The white elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. I think it's also about how we are all basically clueless about sex starting out, not knowing what to do, fumbling in the dark till we find something that works. But that might just be me...
in the heat of burning air to watch the naked famele body is insane,
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what karb said. basically, the hidden shit, not secrets but just things denied word form among families. yeah, that invisible carrot. there has to be a thing or two in your childhood that would embarrase you to hear aloud. that's what the story is about. showing three dudes' most embarrasing instances and all three had to do with masterbation. man, that story will fuck you up. but exodus is much worse, man that story fucked me up haha
-kabol
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Member07 wrote:
I would like to hear that Janice Dickinson was assasinated... Some people are just like slinkies not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
Also, if you have access to the archived Chuck essays, go and check out the one he did with Guts. He breaks it down a lot better than I can as to it's different themes and "horses." I [i]think[/i] it was essay 4, but not entirely sure.
in the heat of burning air to watch the naked famele body is insane,
thanks, I see what you mean. so if you were to use one word it would be "embarresment", "shame" or maybe "isolation"? Feels like I really painted myself into a corner here, to illustrate Guts I mean. Hard to really find the core in this story and base all the imagery on that.
That's the problem with society. We're too ashamed of everything. Not till you can wank in the open, you will never trully be free
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I'm pretty sure if Chuck were to describe it in one word he would use "horror"..That's what he set out to do, to write a short horror story unlike any other. I believe he mentions that in the essay..if not I am sure I read that somewhere else then. But in that sense I would say that it is about horror. Not so much horrorifying to the reader but horrifying to the characters in the story. The closest you get to horror is the feeling of horrific empathy/sympathy for the characters.
Not till you can wank in the open, you will never trully be free
Please, god, let that line be used in something in the near future.
"I could tell by the tone of his voice that he was trying to make me see his point, but really...all I could see was the big fucking knife."
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