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vimbry · 6 months

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in a constant fight between "yes it's sad to say you will romanticize, all the things you've known before, it was not not not so great" and "call me sentimental, but I want to go back, and commemorate the place with a historical plaque"

#tmbg #I guess in a way both ''puppet head'' and ''canajoharie'' are about viewing negative experiences in hindsight #but ''puppet head'' is being close enough to still approach the memories without rose-tinted glasses and be glad you're beyond them #because there's only better things ahead. but also savvy enough to know that nostalgia catches up with everyone and to try and avoid it #''canajoharie'' may be about a possibly misplaced fondness for a terrible time that strikes an emotional chord of longing with you #perhaps because the experience is mixed up in positive memories and still shaped who you are today #that's what I get out of ''where a rocket ship experiment went awry. when the prototype exploded on the launching site'' anyway #to me it sounds like a metaphor about a formative/coming-of-age moment that didn't pan out as well as the narrator hoped #but it's part of their life regardless

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