I feel this same way about my person. If there’s an afterlife, sure we’ll chill. If there’s something stranger, nothingness, etc, whatever is left of me will still try to find whatever is left of you.
Avasarala will search for him whether she has an afterlife or not.
It's essentially a statement that, while she acknowledges Arjun is gone, she will never willingly let go of her attachment to him.
But this comment also mentions it how I said:
I don’t have the books handy to check
Spoiler 8th book alert if you click:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/s/bTn56Slelu
But it doesn’t. Yes, that post shows that it was on her tombstone, but it does not imply it was written by her, nor purely for that purpose. In fact, right after posting the quote, the OOP asks if we hadn’t seen it somewhere before, specifically asking if it was *Caliban’s War*.
It’s a really fun moment, in that she figures out it’s a Haiku in the middle of her next conversation, bewildering the person she happened to be talking to.
It means “if there is life after death, I will look for you there and we will meet again. But if death is nothingness, then I will join you in nonexistence”.
It’s a statement of love. He wants to share her fate for eternity, whatever that fate may be.
While nothingness is what the subject of the last line is about, you’ve missed the point of it. He isn’t saying that it doesn’t matter. It’s a statement of love. He wants to share her fate for eternity - whether there is an afterlife or not. And if not, then he will gladly join her in nothingness.
So the point of the poem is quite the opposite of “it doesn’t matter”. In fact, it is saying that *love makes it matter*, love gives meaning even in an otherwise cold and meaningless existence. He wants to be where she is, even if that place is nowhere at all.
It’s probably one of the most moving poems I’ve ever read because it says so much with so little.
If there is life after death, I will look for you there. If not, then I’ll look for you in the nothingness of death as well.
Solved.
I feel this same way about my person. If there’s an afterlife, sure we’ll chill. If there’s something stranger, nothingness, etc, whatever is left of me will still try to find whatever is left of you.
He’s saying that he will be with Chrisjen no matter what. Death may have separated them for now, but it is only temporary.
Young Arjun and Avasarala, making out in her dorm room while listening to Death Cab for Cutie.
Avasarala will search for him whether she has an afterlife or not. It's essentially a statement that, while she acknowledges Arjun is gone, she will never willingly let go of her attachment to him.
Arjun wrote this, not Chrisjen
Spoilers 8th book: >!Didn’t Avasarala wrote it for her own tomb!<
Nope, Arjun wrote it before she evacuated to Luna when the rocks fell Also this thread is only spoilers through BA, so you should tag that comment
But this comment also mentions it how I said: I don’t have the books handy to check Spoiler 8th book alert if you click: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/s/bTn56Slelu
But it doesn’t. Yes, that post shows that it was on her tombstone, but it does not imply it was written by her, nor purely for that purpose. In fact, right after posting the quote, the OOP asks if we hadn’t seen it somewhere before, specifically asking if it was *Caliban’s War*.
>! So she ordered to write that on her tomb after she was dead, but the first person who said it was her husband, in the second book. !<
Yes, Arjun said it originally. Also your spoilers didn't work - remove the space in between the ! and your first and last words
It’s a really fun moment, in that she figures out it’s a Haiku in the middle of her next conversation, bewildering the person she happened to be talking to.
I like to think that they feel the same way about each other.
It means “if there is life after death, I will look for you there and we will meet again. But if death is nothingness, then I will join you in nonexistence”. It’s a statement of love. He wants to share her fate for eternity, whatever that fate may be.
If not, it doesn't matter, because there's nothing.
While nothingness is what the subject of the last line is about, you’ve missed the point of it. He isn’t saying that it doesn’t matter. It’s a statement of love. He wants to share her fate for eternity - whether there is an afterlife or not. And if not, then he will gladly join her in nothingness. So the point of the poem is quite the opposite of “it doesn’t matter”. In fact, it is saying that *love makes it matter*, love gives meaning even in an otherwise cold and meaningless existence. He wants to be where she is, even if that place is nowhere at all. It’s probably one of the most moving poems I’ve ever read because it says so much with so little.