Freedom, On the Same Line

And latitude

Fold back the morning and bring on the night

There's an alien moon that hangs between darkness and light

Latitude

Between me and you, you're a straight line of distance

A cold stretch of black across blue

Latitude

-- "Latitude", Elton John

The world of Pokémon, even with some rules that some people and places may have, also offers a good deal of freedom to do some things and go to some places with involvement of the species of the same name. A concept that also expresses freedom in a way is "latitude", which regards the openness to do things on the spectrum of a line, much like those that circle the world in the east-west direction. That concept is essentially referred in the song I've quoted above, one of several by the same artist on the same album, also previously mentioned on this blog - yes, it's one of my attachments aside from Pokémon, but it's still valuable in all respects.

Quite a bit of the song makes references to scenes of daily life and the "distance" concept as part of the cartographic concept the song title refers to. Here again, "freedom" comes into play as the activities that a person may do in a day and the seemingly limitless possibilities of happenings in the environment. Similar things may occur in the Pokémon world for both regular people and Trainers, and of course all the Pokémon that accompany them or are present in the environment. And if they all lie on or approached by the same line - not necessarily that of latitude - then the openness of connections are evident.

Interestingly (or not), the song makes references to London, the city in England, which in the Pokémon world is reflected by the Galar region. The happenings then could be perceived as taking place in that region's analogue city (or cities), and the "freedom" concept carries over. Also, the moon in the Pokémon world, even if it is an analogue of the real world, could appear "alien" to some, and it seems to fit well with the "alien moon" as referred in the chorus, being the above quoted part.

Personally, I also perceive that the song contains a transition from the daytime to the nighttime (if the chorus as above doesn't already suggest as such), and this conjures up imagery of people with some things to do throughout the day, finally arriving at the night mentioned in the chorus. It makes sense to a certain extent, given all the elements of the song as I've mentioned above.

Having the freedom or latitude to do certain things is important, especially in the Pokémon world where there is the possibility of undertaking different kinds of adventures. And if they're all connected by certain lines, that may just be a prompt to have some of them in one's life and close up the distance between the person and other elements of the (Pokémon) world.

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