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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 20, 2008 14:35:26 GMT -5
Post your thoughts/questions/theories/comments about Story Six of Cloud Atlas: "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After."
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Jul 20, 2008 20:13:32 GMT -5
I was wondering what people's thoughts were about the God and Satan figures in this story, Sonmi and Old Georgie, and how they came to be. We were beginning to see how the legends about Sonmi might have come to be, but what about Georgie? Was he similarly a person from one of the previous stories like Sonmi was?
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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 21, 2008 10:16:46 GMT -5
I hope you don't think this is laughable, but all I could think of was George Bush. He did make one reference that I especially thought connected Old Georgie to Dubya, but I took the book back to the library, so I can't look it up. DARN!
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Post by Sixteen on Jul 21, 2008 13:50:51 GMT -5
I like the name F'kugly.
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Post by magpie on Jul 23, 2008 8:03:00 GMT -5
I love the idea of Georgie being from George Bush.
I couldn't think of any source. I'm sure that there will be one though. Apparantly, although the goddess has aquired Sonmi's name, she is recognisably a real traditional Hawaian goddess
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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 23, 2008 14:39:20 GMT -5
"Sloosha's Crossin' " was perhaps my favorite of the six. I loved the dialect. Mostly, I really cared what happened to the characters. Zachry was a very sympathetic narrator.
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Post by magpie on Jul 23, 2008 15:33:19 GMT -5
But it ended badly for all of them (alright Zachry lived past 50 and fathered a new family, but he would never have fully recovered from his loss) and badly for civilisation, which is down by the Prescients and the Valley people by the end, with Maui threatened by Kona pirates.
So it makes a really depressing future to look forward to.
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