100% pg 171 "But now we're away, running through the field where every living thing flourishes in desperate abandon, and lurching each second between joy and horror, our mind full of nonsensical premises, and ignorant and innocent, never having known anyone, even Irene, even Rosa, even Herta, even the Jews and the others I made." -The narrator is living the last few moments before him and Odilo become separated. He is thinking about all the pros and cons of living in him. He seems to want leave with memories of all the people he has seen. As Odilo slowly enters the womb the narrator slowly dies out in memory and is separated from his lifelong friend.
An image that would represent this would be http://lukep.typepad.com/photos/uncat... The narrator is leaving to his afterlife whereas Odilo leaves existence. The path that is shown seems to represent the end of a journey for the narrator as he has lived his life.
Haiku: Parting from a friend What was I meant to achieve This is not farewell
pg 171
"But now we're away, running through the field where every living thing flourishes in desperate abandon, and lurching each second between joy and horror, our mind full of nonsensical premises, and ignorant and innocent, never having known anyone, even Irene, even Rosa, even Herta, even the Jews and the others I made."
-The narrator is living the last few moments before him and Odilo become separated. He is thinking about all the pros and cons of living in him. He seems to want leave with memories of all the people he has seen. As Odilo slowly enters the womb the narrator slowly dies out in memory and is separated from his lifelong friend.
An image that would represent this would be http://lukep.typepad.com/photos/uncat...
The narrator is leaving to his afterlife whereas Odilo leaves existence. The path that is shown seems to represent the end of a journey for the narrator as he has lived his life.
Haiku:
Parting from a friend
What was I meant to achieve
This is not farewell