This week’s entry is a riff on a classic poem by John Green called “The Rivada.
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. The poem is about a man getting into a boat in the middle of the ocean on a night when all the boats have gone to bed and he has his life raft. What a badass. I love to think about the poem from every angle.
I mean, how awesome is it that someone can take off in the middle of the ocean and not die? Maybe this is just something my mind is playing with. The poem goes on to tell us that the person who did this is a “rivarian.” In Latin, “rivar” means “to die” or “to be dead.
Sounds like somebody’s not quite sure. The rivarian is a person who dies in order to live again. The person who does this is doing it for something. It’s a kind of rebirth. So, a rivarian is someone who is reborn.
We’re all born with the potential for rebirth, and then we die to get to live again. But the rivarian also dies to live again. This is what the poem is all about, and as the rivarian dies, its like a kind of rebirth of what happened: he dies and then he goes back to living and then he dies again.
The rivarian also dies to live again. The rivarian is born of someone who dies and then they die again, and then they go back to living. And in this way, a rivarian can die twice, and then be reborn.
That’s the rivarian, who dies, and then dies again. It’s the same as what happens when someone dies and then someone dies again.
This poem is a really good case study in the philosophy of death. One of the key things that we learned about the poem is that it’s about the concept of death, and that death is what we’ve all known all our lives. The rivarian is born from someone who dies and then dies again, and then goes back to living. And like the rivarian, a rivarian can die twice, and then be reborn.
What makes the rivarian so interesting is that its a concept that is so vague that it probably doesn’t really qualify as a concept. We had a professor from Harvard University who wrote a paper about this, and he said that in the past, people with this concept had been called “reincarnate” or “reincarnate-ness” by the same name. I think that’s a pretty good thing, actually.
Well, back in the day, we used to call people with this concept reincarnate, or reincarnate-ness, but now we just call them rivarians, and they’ve definitely gotten a name.