So we had the seesawing motif of the times displayed here, characters drifting up and down.
The seesaw idea came in the beginning with Don moving the couch, Ginsberg mentioning it as two people on a seesaw. Later, the expression, "it's a real taffy pull" was used in similarity of the idea. So I'm figuring that was the theme here, a demonstration of that idea.
Seesawing is about reversing up and down. Don is forward and reverse again, up and down. He acts good in the beginning, falls back on the downlsope of his life's seesaw, and in the end in coming to terms with the tags and after being with Freddy he seemingly has come up again.
You have Margaret now going in a complete revese direction, depending upon one's view she's either coming up to enlightenment from beginning down, or is now on a very downward slide.
So Roger seesaws in his own way as well. He's the outside of Margaret, swinging to the inside, and swinging back down literally on the ground in the dirt. That's how seesawing ends on the playground, ending up falling into the dirt except usually in fun. And that's what the commune is, a playground where they do whatever they want, as are all playgrounds. And Roger ends up in the dirt on the playground. But Margaret ends up in the dirt as well.
Freddy has been on a seesaw for seasons now, and has stayed on the upswing apparently. And Layne's pennant, lost, then found, then thrown out, then up high again.
And of course Peggy. She's on an upswing with a raise and recognition which she's always wanted. She seesaws with Don in now standing above him as he is seated in front of her as her subordinate with her now in charge in his old role. They swing again when he swings above to stand her up for the meeting and work therefore taking the higher ground in the motion, yet he comes back down below her in the end.
So you have both Roger and Don, usually on top, ending up in both their separate ways on a bottom downswing. For them and the time, it's probably apropo to quote Jim Miorrison here regarding these two and what will probably close out the series in the end, "The future ain't what it used to be".
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So we had the seesawing motif of the times displayed here, characters drifting up and down.
The seesaw idea came in the beginning with Don moving the couch, Ginsberg mentioning it as two people on a seesaw. Later, the expression, "it's a real taffy pull" was used in similarity of the idea. So I'm figuring that was the theme here, a demonstration of that idea.
Seesawing is about reversing up and down. Don is forward and reverse again, up and down. He acts good in the beginning, falls back on the downlsope of his life's seesaw, and in the end in coming to terms with the tags and after being with Freddy he seemingly has come up again.
You have Margaret now going in a complete revese direction, depending upon one's view she's either coming up to enlightenment from beginning down, or is now on a very downward slide.
So Roger seesaws in his own way as well. He's the outside of Margaret, swinging to the inside, and swinging back down literally on the ground in the dirt. That's how seesawing ends on the playground, ending up falling into the dirt except usually in fun. And that's what the commune is, a playground where they do whatever they want, as are all playgrounds. And Roger ends up in the dirt on the playground. But Margaret ends up in the dirt as well.
Freddy has been on a seesaw for seasons now, and has stayed on the upswing apparently. And Layne's pennant, lost, then found, then thrown out, then up high again.
And of course Peggy. She's on an upswing with a raise and recognition which she's always wanted. She seesaws with Don in now standing above him as he is seated in front of her as her subordinate with her now in charge in his old role. They swing again when he swings above to stand her up for the meeting and work therefore taking the higher ground in the motion, yet he comes back down below her in the end.
So you have both Roger and Don, usually on top, ending up in both their separate ways on a bottom downswing. For them and the time, it's probably apropo to quote Jim Miorrison here regarding these two and what will probably close out the series in the end, "The future ain't what it used to be".
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