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Please read through chapter 24 tonight and post accordingly. Excellent discussion today as always. Tonight’s reading is also pretty cool in my book. Which is also your book (we’re talking about the same book; thus, it IS the same book. isn’t it wild!?).
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I felt like these last few chapters really picked up the pace of the story. With Eric finally meeting up with Trey Fidorous, and Eric and Scout’s relationship blossoming, I have gotten much more involved with the story. I feel like now that there is greater human interaction between the characters and now that Eric is building himself a past, and a life, I can feel for him more and understand his situations and feelings better. Eric and Scout’s relationship has evolved into a serious love story… what happens now as Eric finds out the truth about Scout’s intentions? Could he survive losing another “Clio?”
i’d like to think scout really does care for eric, but i could see why she’d want the ludovician to take down ward. do you think eric has met any of ward’s many selves in the book yet, not knowing it was ward?
What an amazing place Eric finds himself in during the reading. It’s crazy to think about a room made entirely of paper, with loose sheets ankle to waist deep. “It’s hardly the most efficient of filing systems” Fidorous notes (238). That’s a bit of an understatement if you ask me. But my favorite part of the chapter is how the Doctor plays Middle C to exterminate the fish. It’s “too big for them,” as if this note/ music is the only thing real enough to unravel conceptual things.
The sudden change of pace was a little jarring. At first the book was all about Eric and his attempts to survive in a strange world (our world). All of a sudden it is an adventure love story?
-”If there exists a situation where staying in the status quo would make things worse, and you have no idea how to improve it, what would you do”