Great nightmarish acid trip. Still got a few questions/thoughts:
1) Why, why, would the army not have done short recon missions, maybe even only a few yards into the shimmer, and then returned with data? A team could have safely chilled barely inside the border of the shimmer for a few days and deciphered what was happening, because the group of Portman and company did, in fact, basically figure it out. Then they could have returned back with that information for the NEXT mission. And then the next mission could have gone a little deeper, armed with new knowledge on the nature of what they were confronting.
2) Why did these groups of people keep traveling to the lighthouse through this hellish jungle, when they could have taken the beach route? The beach certainly looked a shit of a lot safer, even if it would have tacked on some distance.
3) After several short recon missions, and after they discovered what was happening in the shimmer with prism-like gene mutations and all that fuck, the army could have sent 500, maybe 1,000, maybe 10,000, highly trained operatives down the beach -- building all sorts of structures and navigation markers along the way so they didn't get lost or attacked by strange creatures -- until they found the lighthouse. And then apparently it wouldn't have been difficult to destroy it. Which brings me to my final question:
4) A grenade? That's all it took?
The answers to a lot of these questions are probably that this whole story is wrapped in metaphors upon metaphors on the nature of human existence and human behavior and et cetera et cetera.
But, logistics. Do that right too.
1) Why, why, would the army not have done short recon missions, maybe even only a few yards into the shimmer, and then returned with data? A team could have safely chilled barely inside the border of the shimmer for a few days and deciphered what was happening, because the group of Portman and company did, in fact, basically figure it out. Then they could have returned back with that information for the NEXT mission. And then the next mission could have gone a little deeper, armed with new knowledge on the nature of what they were confronting.
2) Why did these groups of people keep traveling to the lighthouse through this hellish jungle, when they could have taken the beach route? The beach certainly looked a shit of a lot safer, even if it would have tacked on some distance.
3) After several short recon missions, and after they discovered what was happening in the shimmer with prism-like gene mutations and all that fuck, the army could have sent 500, maybe 1,000, maybe 10,000, highly trained operatives down the beach -- building all sorts of structures and navigation markers along the way so they didn't get lost or attacked by strange creatures -- until they found the lighthouse. And then apparently it wouldn't have been difficult to destroy it. Which brings me to my final question:
4) A grenade? That's all it took?
The answers to a lot of these questions are probably that this whole story is wrapped in metaphors upon metaphors on the nature of human existence and human behavior and et cetera et cetera.
But, logistics. Do that right too.
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the shimmer?
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