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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
"It's our time at the edge."
Hi,
I watched the movie "St. Elmo's Fire" on TV, but I don't understnad the sentence "It's our time at the edge".
Can anybody explain it?
The whole line goes like this:
Billy: Jules, y'know, honey... this isn't real. You know what it is? It's St. Elmo's Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them... there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you're making up all of this. We're all going through this. It's our time at the edge.
By the way, searching the web, I found the above one is one of famous quotes, but I couldn't figure out its meaning.
Thanks in advance.
I watched the movie "St. Elmo's Fire" on TV, but I don't understnad the sentence "It's our time at the edge".
Can anybody explain it?
The whole line goes like this:
Billy: Jules, y'know, honey... this isn't real. You know what it is? It's St. Elmo's Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them... there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you're making up all of this. We're all going through this. It's our time at the edge.
By the way, searching the web, I found the above one is one of famous quotes, but I couldn't figure out its meaning.
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
One possible interpretation: it's about being faced with the reality of adult life when you are on the cusp of taking on responsibility for yourself. " . .
- One possible interpretation: it's about being faced with the reality of adult life when you are on the cusp of taking on responsibility for yourself.
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- Our time on the edge" means you realize that what you thought being an adult in the world was is an illusion.
- In other words, it means that you are at a moment in time when you must jump out of the nest and fly on your own in a strange world where nothing is the way you imagined it to be, and that's scary.
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One possible interpretation: it's about being faced with the reality of adult life when you are on the cusp of taking on responsibility for yourself. " . . . Our time on the edge" means you realize that what you thought being an adult in the world was is an illusion. In other words, it means that you are at a moment in time when you must jump out of the nest and fly on your own in a strange world
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