Have You Passed Through This Night?

Lyra and Bon Bon have a fight.

Evil is a circle. A pony is hurt and in turn hurts another. It self-perpetuates, misery on top of misery, geometric, exponential. Lyra considers this.

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FloydienSlip

FloydienSlip #1 · Oct 14th, 2015 · · ·

Before I read this: does this contain spoilers for TNIP?

Cynewulf

Cynewulf #2 · Oct 14th, 2015 · · ·

6527631 no. Just a similar name and inspiration

FloydienSlip

FloydienSlip #3 · Oct 14th, 2015 · · ·

This was beautifully written.

Random Order

Random Order #4 · Oct 14th, 2015 · · ·

is there gonna be another chapter? This is too good to leave on its own like this!

Cynewulf

Cynewulf #5 · Oct 15th, 2015 · · ·

6528288 erjit, on tumblr

CommisarSilver

CommisarSilver #6 · Oct 15th, 2015 · 1 · ·

I guess it feels half way through the story when it ended. I don't know Lyra's reasons, adoption as an option seems to have been forgotten and when it ends I feel like I'm missing pieces to the puzzle.

Perhaps I'm looking at it wrong, the discourse between them was an interesting read through I don't get the pass through the night bit. What does that line mean?

Stormy Skies

Stormy Skies #7 · Oct 15th, 2015 · 3 · ·

This was beautifully melancholy. Is this pain we feel and inflict on others a chain, is it born of some seed that we carry and pass on to others? Or does it originate in us, a darkness we all carry?

For such a short piece, this does a fantastic job of asking these questions. Lyra and Bon Bon wandering the Ponyville night, ships never crossing paths is a beautiful metaphor for how alone we all feel sometimes.

Ri2

Ri2 #8 · Oct 15th, 2015 · · 1 ·

Well, the source of the evil is obviously the Leech. Damn that Leech! Damn it!

Cynewulf

Cynewulf #9 · Oct 16th, 2015 · · ·

6532256 I tend to prefer it that way when I feel like I can do so. Thankya

Cynewulf

Cynewulf #10 · Oct 16th, 2015 · · ·

6529498 Besides the fact that I listen to that song almost every single day (it's a fantastic album, and also a historic one for reasons that have nothing to do with music) I was also thinking of a book that actually gave one of the chapters in The Night is Passing it's name. Prolegomena to Charity by a certain Jean-Luc Marion, a continental philosopher. I read it in undergrad. Marion approaches the nature of evil as not something random or illogical as we often tend to think it, but something that is actually very easy to understand conceptually. Almost mathematical in a disturbing way. Hurt begets hurt. Like a reflex. (barring natural evil and madness) He does this as a set up to talk about charity in terms of breaking a cycle, but the framing has always stuck with me.

Guy_Incognito