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timeasmymeasure
having read this, I can now comment, yay!
Date: Feb. 4th, 2008 11:29 am (UTC)And that's at the crux of it, I think, the attention to time and memory in "Victors" [...] a sudden-again helpless recognition that I won't live on in history like these characters have; that I haven't left, and possibly, even likely, won't leave, something behind that's worth remembering
Maybe it's just that I never wanted to be a hero or a writer, but it was that same aspect of the story (and other fictitious nonfiction) that left me so elated. In the end it's not about them, not about John and Rodney and Teyla and Ronon living on -- puny mortals that they are -- through history, but about history living on through them (and past them, and sometimes despite them), about the future generations of fangirls/academics who will always be there, speaking new languages, telling new myths, and having new academic feuds.