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Next she meets up with the manic depressive CARBON. They travel through the
Black Hills of Dakota and to Wounded Knee, scene of one of the darkest
episodes in Native American history. "All Carbon wants is to disintegrate
into nothingness. So its an extremely destructive story. Just as people
risked their lives to keep their sacred land, a meltdown is about to happen
in her life and a waltz into insanity is on the horizon. She's on this
downhill race in her mind and Scarlet has to get to her before she kills
herself." They end up in a ski resort - Bear Claw, Free Fall and Gunner's
View in the song are all ski runs. But for Carbon the normal parameters and
boundaries have ceased to apply and given way to self-mutilation and an urge
to plunge over the cliff. Scarlet walks into this madness, but the outcome
is left unresolved.
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"Sometimes you don't have to necessarily spend alot of time with somebody to have exchanged alot of yourself and taken away parts of them that become a part of your body map. That sort of become written, tattooed on you in some way. And it can't be seen visibly, but it's felt internally. Carbon is this woman that Scarlet has gone to see. She's carbon-made, she only wants to be unmade. There is a brilliance, though, to Carbon, as there's a brilliance to a diamond. But people chip away and chip away and chip away at this person...because of their brilliance. They wanted her, so they excavated her. So there's not alot left in some ways, but a whole nuther world has been created in other ways for her to survive it. So Scarlet is having to deal with both these people, who live in the one being of Carbon."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
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