Thursday, January 29, 2009
Radical Alterity
So one point in this book that struck me was when it was talking about intimacy between enemies and/or strangers. At first I did not understand it but then as it went into explanation it really began to make sense. If you know someone inside and out their is no need for conversation or communication between the two people, basically their is no intimacy. And if you dont know someone you have an intimacy to develop with that person, you have a basis for alot of communication between the two people. Maybe this is why their is the saying that opposites attract, you have more to offer one another. Yet, my question is what about two strangers that have the same morals and beliefs? Is their still intimacy between them? If everything is the same between the two and that is communicated is that where the intimacy stops? Are two strangers who have no simular beliefs, morals, and lifestyles more intimate? What defines intimacy?
Friday, January 23, 2009
"The Ticket That Exploded"
This is an interesting splice book, I find myself not being able to dive into the book as much as I would like because it is very intense and complicated at the same time. I think that I am not able to understand the book's emotions as much becasue it is combining two things, the books version of love with disturbing alien sex acts/content. I think that is about the only thing that I understand at this point all of the sex throughout the book and the splicing of "good" content that I can understand with disturbing content.
Their was one comment made in class yesterday about our "anti-bodies" fighting the book off, and in a way this is true for me. We as humans have been built to accept a certain standard of living and a certain standard of emotions but when these emotions and way of life are tampered with and thrown into something disgusting/disturbing we don't know how to handle it because it doesn't fit into our way of life so we immediately reject it. I find this to be another reason why I cannot delve into the book. But I'll keep reading and see what it to come in the next portion of the book!
Their was one comment made in class yesterday about our "anti-bodies" fighting the book off, and in a way this is true for me. We as humans have been built to accept a certain standard of living and a certain standard of emotions but when these emotions and way of life are tampered with and thrown into something disgusting/disturbing we don't know how to handle it because it doesn't fit into our way of life so we immediately reject it. I find this to be another reason why I cannot delve into the book. But I'll keep reading and see what it to come in the next portion of the book!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Invention Of Morel
So, I found the end portion of this book to be quite captivating. It is very interesting that Morel really did create an invention and also re-invented himself to live on for eternity. This is nothing that I expected, I thought that the people on the island were ghosts or that the writer was a ghost or just crazy. But I did enjoy that unsuspected twist!
The overall plot was like a twisted love story, the writer was madly in love with Faustine, a recording, and in the end he died to have his memory live on with her. Their was also many things that were in the way of the writers posibility of having a happily ever after with Faustine, the projections of the island people, Faustine not being real, Morel killing everyone off to "preserve" them for eternity.
It was a sad love story in a way because the hopless writer was never going to be with Faustine and he kept on battling his feelings for her, in the book after he realizes that Faustine was just a projection he says that he "was able to view Faustine dispassionately, as a simple object" but in the next sentence he says he spent twenty days with her. A few paragraphs down he also says that it "touches me to have her so close to me" while he is laying on the mat beside her bed. The writer goes through an emotional rollercoaster when he realizes the truth about the island people.
Even though the ending was sad, it was also hopeful in a way, the writer was able to be with Faustine's spirit, her "immortal" projection. They were almost together, as together as they would have ever been and that brought the writer a sense of serenity and peace. The death was very horribe but he did it for the person, or projection, that he loved. I cant help but wonder if things would have turned out the same if the writer and Fausine really did meet, would he have still felt the same? Would she have felt the same? Maybe he wouldn't have died after all...
The overall plot was like a twisted love story, the writer was madly in love with Faustine, a recording, and in the end he died to have his memory live on with her. Their was also many things that were in the way of the writers posibility of having a happily ever after with Faustine, the projections of the island people, Faustine not being real, Morel killing everyone off to "preserve" them for eternity.
It was a sad love story in a way because the hopless writer was never going to be with Faustine and he kept on battling his feelings for her, in the book after he realizes that Faustine was just a projection he says that he "was able to view Faustine dispassionately, as a simple object" but in the next sentence he says he spent twenty days with her. A few paragraphs down he also says that it "touches me to have her so close to me" while he is laying on the mat beside her bed. The writer goes through an emotional rollercoaster when he realizes the truth about the island people.
Even though the ending was sad, it was also hopeful in a way, the writer was able to be with Faustine's spirit, her "immortal" projection. They were almost together, as together as they would have ever been and that brought the writer a sense of serenity and peace. The death was very horribe but he did it for the person, or projection, that he loved. I cant help but wonder if things would have turned out the same if the writer and Fausine really did meet, would he have still felt the same? Would she have felt the same? Maybe he wouldn't have died after all...
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