The Invention Of Morel (New York Review Books Classics)

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In addition, love in the novel will be the one that leads to immortality. It will be the trigger of everything, it will be what awakens in Morel the desire to immortalize himself with Faustine. It is also the trigger that makes that same desire appear also in the fugitive.So, according to Casares' novel, a “consciousness device” should satisfy two simultaneous conditions: On the diary's final entry the fugitive describes how he is waiting for his soul to pass onto the recording while dying. He asks a favor of the man who will invent a machine capable of merging souls based on Morel's invention. He wants the inventor to search for them and let him enter Faustine's consciousness as an act of mercy.

A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia. Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart.Tong F., Pratte M. S. (2012). Decoding patterns of human brain activity. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 63, 483–509 It was not as if he had not heard me, as if he had not seen me; it was as if the ears I had were not good enough to hear, as if the eyes I had were not good enough to see “ Insko B. E. (2003). Measuring presence: subjective, behavioral and physiological methods, in Being There: Concepts, Effects and Measurement of User Presence in Synthetic Environments, eds Riva G., Davide F., Ijsselsteijn W. A. (Amsterdam: Ios Press; ), 110–119 [ Google Scholar] The tourists like to dance to the song " Tea for Two" from the Broadway musical No, No, Nanette. This foreshadows the fugitive's love for Faustine.