Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Moving on with Morel (forgot to post this)

Moving on in Morel
The second half of The Invention of Morel continues unraveling from the Fugitives eyes. Piece after piece of Morels identity and invention are fusing together. Much like the way he suggests that humans fuse together over time. On page 78 the fugitive is talking about Morels machine and puts forward the idea of an “attachement that would keep it from receiving the waves from living transmitters (they would no doubt be stronger)”. Essentially being able to resurrect the dead. The add on would be a piece that when sitting down long enough could gather all the molecules that a human excretes when their dead, and reassemble them back together to form the person who was deceased. What about the person, would they be the same or would they have to form a different soul for the same arrangement of molecules? I wonder what Morel was thinking of when he trapped everyone into his machine. Was he thinking of their families and the people that would wonder where everyone went? I doubt it. Mayhap he was protecting everyone and doing a civil service to his friends by keeping them in a happy eternity. Though it doesn’t seem as though his eternity is going to be completely blissfull, every week he is going to have the same fights he has with Faustine… hardly something I would want to be my eternity, I like to think that my afterlife will be composed of more than simply one week on repeat.

1 comment:

  1. How do you see similarities between this kind of fusing and the image splicing we read about in The Ticket that Exploded?

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