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Hello again -
Great work today, everyone, I’m pumped that you guys are pumped on the book so far. Please read through chapter 7 / page 83 for homework and post here. I’m sure we’ll have plenty more to discuss tomorrow, as well! I’ll post the reading schedule later this afternoon. Take care!
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i’m happy there’s finally a shark in this book. the idea that there are Ludovician is crazy cool and creepy at the same time. it reminds me of The Matrix and how everyone is tapped into this world and people know where you are. i’m curious as to what the sharks are protecting; does it have to do with being able to bring the dead back to life like what the first eric sanderson was trying to do to clio? on page 79 the first eric sanderson forwards a memory from the Aquarium Fragment that one of the earlier eric’s recorded. it describes the first time eric encountered the Ludovician and also a memory of his grandfather. maybe eric will find more memories of his family that will help him in the future.
gahh this book is so bad ass! i love it.
ok so just a clarification- the fragments are just all different ways to help him remember the past, correct? or figure out what is happening, at least.
also, if the ludovician is constantly searching for him through connections and paths and degrees of separation, why did the first eric sanderson want him to remember anything of his past at all? isn’t making him remember and think about clio and his past and figure out what’s happening just a sure fire way to send the shark after him? wouldn’t it make more sense to tell him something completely false so that he doesn’t know who he really is at all, and the shark can’t come after him anymore?
and, to put it bluntly, what is the point of eric living at all? only one other person (and a cat) even knows that he’s alive, and he’s spent the past six months not really doing anything and just staying in his house. he has to fight to live, but he’s not really living, just existing. and once he does figure everything out about his past, what’s the point? he’s cut off all ties with his friends and family, and he can’t really make any new friends or anything because the ludovician will always be lookng for him.
i don’t know, this will probs all be revealed later in the book, but at the moment i’m confused.
I honestly don’t know what to post but I was thinking. Cat eat fish. So do we think that Ian can act as a temperory shield or forcefield from the infamous Ludovician?
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I find this book absolutely devastating for some reason. It just makes me really really sad. I love it so much; but, just as gotmilk was saying, what is the point of Eric’s existence? The only way he can survive is if he renounces his identity and becomes somebody else. His only chance at life isn’t his own.
Also, when reading the first Eric Sanderson’s letters, I imagined the current Eric sitting in his room surrounded by thousands of books, stacks of papers, his cat and a bottle of vodka, rereading all these letters and frightened of the Ludovician: the image of a complete crazy person. Is this entire conquest and concept of thought oceans really true? Or is the first Eric Sanderson just manipulating a vulnerable and delicate second Eric Sanderson? Does it even matter whether or not he is “sane” and if this is all “true”? Is that all insanity really is, manipulation of the thoughts of vulnerable people?
Errmmm, I guess as you can see, this book is kind of messing with me….but I’m liking it
Woahhhhh, dat’s crazyyy. I was really confused when he was describing the whole floor collapsing on him and stuff but I really liked the first Eric Sanderson’s explanation of the Ludovician. I was not expecting that. I also like that its a shark cause it relates to the title and all like wmshakespeare said. I’m also happy he is reading all of the letters he sent to himself, cause that was sort of annoying me. Oh and I don’t understand at what point the first Eric Sanderson was writing these letters. And if this is his eleventh relapse, why aren’t there letters from like the second and third and fourth etc Eric Sandersons?
okayyy so, remember when we did the scavenger hunt and you turned on all the radios and such? is that like the non-divergent conceptual loop that the first eric explains in one of his letters? i understand the lightbulb fragment and how it works, but how do you think the dust, shadow, and envelope fragments worked? i’m assuming the shark came out of the tv after eric left it on. what’s up with all the words that showed up on the screen before then? also, it enrages me that eric didn’t open the letters once he got them because, even though i’m glad to read about the shark attack, he wouldn’t be stuck in the jam that he is currently in. what do you guys think about dr. trey fidorous so far with the little knowledge we have about him?
If people only exist because they are thought of by others as ideas, like what we were talking about in class with Clio, Then wouldn’t Eric not exist because only one other person knows he exists? Also did you know that the saying I think therefore I am only applies to yourself, you know you think and that you exist but you cannot prove that others think, and therefore don’t know if they exist.