Disturbing the Universe (Roswell, Ep. 2 and 3: The Morning After / Monsters)
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. * And I have known the eyes already, known them all-- The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? And how should I presume? -- T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Maybe Liz is earth -- too seen by her hometown, smothered by their awareness; in "Monsters," set on rigid plans and the fact-bound world. Max is, so to speak, space -- longing to be less invisible, less rootless; a high school junior who thinks that college is too far in the future to worry over, to deviate from his preferred strategy of quiet going-along-to-get-along. Or, simply, she is proactive; he is passive, reactive at best. We can assume the former is the stronger path. Certainly f
