Saturday, November 30th, 2013
Living a Story
A book, or rather books, I enjoyed in the past were the ones making up the Inkheart trilogy. The centerplot of the trilogy lay in the protagonist Mo's and his daughter Meggie's ability to read bring words to life. After a series of events, the two, along with many other characters, end up in the middle of the story plot of a book set in the fantasy world of Inkheart.
The reason this reminded of ToK? As I was rereading the last book, Inkdeath, a particular line that went like this, "As she received the news of her mother pregnant with a sibling, Meggie wondered whether the child would belong to the real world or the world of the book. But then, maybe even the other world she considered real had been part of a story as well.". This triggered the idea of a Brain in a Vat, and the ultimate question of "What is reality? How do we know anything is real?".
I never don't question the reality I am living in. Whether I am living in the real world or in an imaginary world created by words written in a book or in a digital world programmed by computers and people, the world I am living in, the life I am leading, is my reality. And I will make the best out of the reality I have. I will strive for the best ending in my reality, the story I belong in and am developing.
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