November 17, 2008

On this day we discussed:

The Cave of Montessino. Here DQ has “grisly” visions. Page 610 in the novel. (This might be the most important page in the book) he spends 3 days here but thinks it has been 1 year. Other novels that use this kind of 1 hour=eternity plot are “Alice in Wonderland,” “Slaughter-House 5,” and I guess “Star Trek” does too, although I have never watched it. Not imortality but the next best thing.

This brings about the following thoughts in myself:

Everytime you sit down to read a book, you add years to your life. You can read “Candide” in a few hours, yet you will have travelled through many years. Who needs a time machine when there is literature? And in literature, you can live die and be resurected. So who needs lazarus?