A Waste of Time

I’m still debating how much to spell this out, but I’ll kind of point out some of the connections I was trying to make here.  Throughout the book, there’s a lot of repeated imagery that’s meant to compare and contrast certain moments in the lives of the different characters with each other.  The first panel here, the background is actually the same background I used on the page in the Marching to “The City” story where Rickets destroys his memory chip, and the pose of the rabbit is meant to be similar to the pose Rickets had when he pulled out his memory chip and looked at it before inserting it for job training, the idea being here to compare the CD that the rabbit is looking at to a memory chip, because we all know that certain songs can carry with them associations of when we’ve heard them before, and be loaded with memories.  In this case, though, the rabbit doesn’t really remember much about the night that the monkey associates with this song, and so that sort of gets at part of what I was trying to say with the whole memory chip thing, because the question here is whether the rabbit chose to forget it, like how Rickets destroyed his memory chip, or if it’s just that experiences can be different for different people in the same place at the same moment, if they’re not on the same page, and that night was different for the monkey than it was for the rabbit.  So, them not being connected in that way kind of makes the rabbit wonder how much of a connection they really had, and how many of his memories were idealized.