Hey Guys, Jill Again

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This week I won’t overload you with 8 pages of philosophical analysis. This time around I just want to point out something subtle in Sunday’s episode that I think is being overlooked. While Bernard is finishing up his interview with Hector, he mentions a blacklisted exchange that took place during one of his more recent narratives.

Bernard: Can you tell me what happened?
Hector: He said he wanted to cut off a piece of me to take home in his carry-on. That he wanted to mount it on the hood of his car for his friends to see. I told him if he wanted a trophy, I could cut pieces of him off and let him fish for them in the Olvido.

Initially I interpreted this to mean the guest’s language had been problematic (carry-on, car, etc). But after taking a second look, I’m wondering if the significance was in Hector’s response. He mentions “the Olvido” as though it’s a river in West World. To my knowledge, no body of water exists with that name. “Olvido” in Spanish means I forget, or in some contexts can refer to a mistake or an oversight. There’s a poem that was published in the late 80’s (I think) by someone named Judith Ortiz Cofer. It goes like this..

It is a dangerous thing
to forget the climate of your birthplace,
to choke out the voices of dead relatives
when in dreams they call you
by your secret name.
It is dangerous
to spurn the clothes you were born to wear
for the sake of fashion; dangerous
to use weapons and sharp instruments
you are not familiar with; dangerous
to disdain the plaster saints
before which your mother kneels
praying with embarrassing fervor
that you survive in the place you have chosen to live:
a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls,
a forgetting place where she fears you will die
of loneliness and exposure.
Jesus, Maria, y Jose, she says,
el olvido is a dangerous thing.

It’s a pretty stunning poem, and fits nicely with many of the themes in our show. I think maybe the “where the mountains meet the sea” could be a place only accessed by those wishing to leave their lives behind permanently. Perhaps for hosts it means being re-set, and re-assigned somewhere else in the park. But perhaps for guests.. it means becoming a host whether they want to or not.. – Jill

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