No, I completely understand Erik's position here. He's looking to hold onto something because everything else is too complex and evolving to ever stay static. For someone that lived off the insanity of the world before Shaw's death (and how much of the normalcy he had before was taken from him), he does need something stable--no matter how he gets it.
I think the metaphor works both ways. Like I said with Charles but I can see how Charles and Erik are in a similar position--their relationship created out of confinement (the pressure that creates the diamond), but also the mixing of something wrong and right into something beautiful.
(It's totally worth that line of thinking. I can make my poems full of metaphors, but won't put them into my actual stories for some reason.)
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Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 177/?
Date: 2012-03-12 10:02 pm (UTC)I think the metaphor works both ways. Like I said with Charles but I can see how Charles and Erik are in a similar position--their relationship created out of confinement (the pressure that creates the diamond), but also the mixing of something wrong and right into something beautiful.
(It's totally worth that line of thinking. I can make my poems full of metaphors, but won't put them into my actual stories for some reason.)