There is one thing in THEPRIS6NER which does not quite add up, it is this. I can understand why Helen is heavily sedated in New York, so she keeps dreaming the Village. However, why does M2 {Two's wife} have to be kept so heavily sedated in the Village? In my book M2 could have been like any other citizen in the Village. She could have had her life with her husband Two, and son 11-12, because it was not M2 who was dreaming the Village, after all it was her other self Helen back in New York who was dreaming the Village. So to have M2 sedated in the Village as well doesn't make any sense!
Breathe in.....breathe out......more Village!
Remember what we've been discussing some time earlier? In my own account, my personal summary I wrote:
ReplyDelete>>2 keeps M2 in her artificial sleep by means of the pills. He feeds her those pills in this virtual reality. Why there? Shouldn't this happen "logically" in the real world of New York?
What about her counterpart Helen, does she, too, have to swallow pills in order to be able to keep on "dreaming"? ... Or is it in her imagination that she needed the pills...?<<
It's inexplicable. - BCNU!
Hello Arno,
DeleteAh yes indeed, thank you for reminding me. And as you say this is inexplicable. I've also thought of something else which is even more inexplicable, and the thought occured to me after what Jana wrote to me in an email yesterday, as we are discussing the above subject. But I'm saving "the even more inexplicable" for a piece of blog
Very kind regards
David
BCNU