One of the most popular poems of the 20th century (and, anecdotally, extremely popular among English majors at my undergraduate institution), Prufrock strums on our heartstrings by putting us in the eyes of a “paralyzed” protagonist. Pondering magic led me, perhaps invariably, to Eliot, and his lamentations in The Love Song of J. The only defense to mistake is faulty effort. Because the “inner” is outwardly visible, the representations are capable of interpretive empirical evaluation themselves. Harry, the golden boy, doesn’t necessarily grasp every concept at first coup, but, when he does, the results emanate the strength that can only be given. Longbottom’s magic emulates his being too: More times then not, the way he’s trying to represent himself comes out awkwardly and differently from what was intended. Hermione is tragically undergifted, so, although she knows the precise methodology behind the execution, there’s an inherent power missing from what comes out. A manifestation of our algorithm our painting the sculpture of what we can be.Īt some level, that’s what the magic is in the Harry Potter books. If only we could walk around as representations of our inner selves that people could see and understand without our having to execute them. Even when dealing with one person (most prominently, and the focus of the titular poem, the current subject of our more primal desires) it’s pretty tough to really say what you mean to say.īut it isn’t like your inability to immediately correctly deal with that question is a sign of a flaw in your conceptual scheme: You got flummoxed for hormonal and reptilian reasons, among others, totally independent of the validity of how you like to live your life. Social situations are often frought with the necessity of preserving several different rapports simultaneously if offered the chance to talk to any of these four people individually, I’m sure I could construct a reasonable response to that question. It’s what happens when we utter some words, think in a certain way, and “it” does what we want for us.Īs everyone has experienced far too many times, it’s pretty hard to do everything we’d like to do.
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