"Facts do not exist: only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche
In this third part of our Tape Investigation, we continue to perform a close analysis of MGSV's tapes, begininng with Chico's 1st tape from Ground Zeroes.
However, much of what is said here is pretty subjective: there are certain aspects of the tapes that cannot be verified objectively. I'd love to hear from y'all in the comments if you come up with a more satisfactory conclusion to some of these lingering mysteries.
Just bear the following passage from Melville's Moby Dick in mind when watching this series.
"Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline... for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers. As no [other] man advances to take this matter in hand, I [Ishmael] hereupon offer my own poor endeavors. I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly by faulty."
-Moby Dick or, The Whale (pg. 193)
This contains a quick screenshot of a poem by the legendary Pablo Neruda. I will post the relevant section here:
Land as slim as a whip,
hot as torture,
your step in Honduras, your blood
in Santo Domingo, at night,
your eyes in Nicaragua
touch me, call me, grip me,
and throughout American lands
I knock on doors to speak,
I tap on tongues that are tied,
I raise curtains, I plunge
my hands into blood:
O, sorrows
of my land, O death-rattle
of the great established silence,
O, long-suffering peoples,
O, slender waist of tears.
~Pablo Neruda, "Centroamérica"
"Neruda was...concerned to produce a spiritual as well as a historical coherence. He took the view that peace meant coherence and that oppression involved the experience of a body being dismembered. In Central and South America, this dismemberment conditioned the agenda of poets who would write about oppression and their hopes for peace. In the poem 'Central America', Neruda speaks of hiding from government authorities and recalls his pleasure in the experience of solidarity with people who gave him refuge."
- Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively, 2003
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