Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The Immortals
Although the short story The Immortals was very depressing i found it to be very entertaining and overall a good read. His jumps between times was a little difficult to follow but he definatly put a lot of emotion into his writing which i find is sometimes hard to do. His constant depression in understandable and even though i can't relate I envy him because he believes he has seen so much.I wish I had endless amounts of time so i could see and experience everything but just like the charicter i would long for an end which sadly he thinks he will never recieve. The mood of the story was morbid because he talks about how twentie years in nothing but a knee-trembler and thats the longest he has to maintain a relationship with someone other then his beloved pet elephant Babalaya. I do agree with Ashley that he does give himself away to be mortal with the way he talks about time.The fact that he looked like,thought and acted like a human before there was even plant life just dosent make enough sence, the writer could have added that he evolved along with all other living things, it would have made it flow a little better. Also he talks about how he spent that whole time keeping his immortality a secret and then explains that he once saw his grandaughter as an old woman and she recognized him throws that off. Hypotheticly if you were immortal you could have no ties with anyone. I supose a life alone is not woth living but thats how it would have to be. In the end i came to believe that he is a survivor of what seemed to be a nuclear war or solar radiation but is in no way immortal. The story is a stream of consciousness spiling from a deranged and warped mind of a human effected by some form of radiation.
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