![]() A man in the front row had tears in his eyes” (59). Kirsten stood in the state of suspension that always came over her at the end of performances, a sense of having flown very high and landed incompletely, her soul pulling upward out of her chest. After a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “The audience rose for a standing ovation. ![]() Art moves us in a way that transforms us and inspires us, even in the most miserable of times. Similarly, art reminds us that we actually have not lost everything. Remnants of art still existed, and these remnants were used to help connect to the past and feel beauty once again through an expressive outlet. There was immense loss from the disease that caused this collapse of civilization, but art was not a complete victim of this collapse as many things and people were. Art allowed many characters to find beauty in an otherwise dull and depressing world. Deborah by the Water, Lake Michigan shining a half mile away” (57). Twilight in the altered world, a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a parking lot in the mysteriously named town of St. For many after the collapse, this filler was art as shown in the following quote, “What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. ![]() A new passion, a new purpose, or a new direction is needed. ![]() ![]() When a person is faced with an absence of something that was once vital or loved, there is a sense of urgency to fill that void. After the collapse, everyone faced great loss. ![]()
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