"What I like is that the solution is the boat. What is the definition of boat? Is that it doesn't have roots. It's rootless. It floats around. That's the solution. We must really accept how we are rootless. This is for me the meaning of this wonderful metaphor. Boat. Boat is the solution. Boat in the sense of you accept rootless. Free floating. You cannot rely on anything. You know, it's not a return to land. Renewal means you cut your roots."
Slavej Zizek in a documentary on the film "Children of Men".
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A wonderful metaphor indeed. Certainly a much easier metaphor than the one operating in the background of my life: that is, roots vs. wings. A boat, as you say, floats around. Barring some disaster, one does not normally have to do anything in particular to keep it afloat.
The aptness of either image, though, remains to be seen.
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