To Terra - Keiko Takemiya
I’ve made this my background, and now you can too!
My goods! I was given the postcards on the right (the Terra E cards, the black and white characters - I don’t know the story name - and the Gilbert cards) by one of the workers who remembered me from last week.
The b&w cards are Tenma no Ketsuzoku, I believe!
And on the bottom left, we can see how Takemiya could never decide what color Serge’s skin is…
toward the terra examination
essay section:
1. choose one of the following characters and describe in a detailed paragraph(s) the way keith expresses his emotional dependency for them: jonah matsuka, seki rei shiroe, sam houston
2. describe in what ways jomy and keith’s respective coping strategies for being forced into a leadership position damage their innocence and how they function as literary foils in this capacity
3. how large is seki rei shiroe’s lego collection? why do you think this?multiple choice section:
1. jomy is
a. less morally reprehensible than keith
b. more morally reprehensible than keith
c. equally morally reprehensible
2. keith is
a. naturally chaotic evil
b. naturally lawful evil
c. naturally neutral good
d. none of the above3. the sd government is
a. a corrupt political insitution
b. a technocracy that had well-intended foundations
c. both a & b
d. neither a nor b
4. the mu are
a. gays
5. blue is
a. an asshole
b. pretending to be asleep
c. should have died in episode 4
d. all of the above
true or false:
1. leo is moe T F
2. keith is physically incapable of detecting females of any species T F
3. tony is the prettiest person T F
I will NEVER use these postcards. People will only get standard white paper from me.
(Source: frenzyquotes)
On closer look, the poem engraved on the tombstone in ep. 11 is “Kann mir einer sagen” (Can someone tell me) by Rainer Maria Rilke (the tombstone even has the date and location where he wrote it i.e. 11/1/1898 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf).
So apparently Jomy could speak German (besides English, which appears to be the universal language in the anime) because he translated the first line and commented that it sounded like something Blue would say. Anyway, it’s a nice touch as the full poem is:
Kann mir einer sagen, wohin
ich mit meinem Leben reiche?
Ob ich nicht auch noch im Sturme streiche
und als Welle wohne im Teiche,
und ob ich nicht selbst noch die blasse, bleiche
frühlingsfrierende Birke bin?(translated badly by me:
Can someone tell me where my life will end up?
Will I too be blown away by the storm and become a wave in a pond?
Will I be yet another pale bleached birch frozen in Spring?)which describes well the situation of the Mu (and Jomy himself) in Nazca, I think.
oh this is pretty interesting…
matsuka’s excellent adventure
Ok, take two.
I still have a not so secret love of Toward the Terra.
