Throughout this book I questioned many of the narrators moves and decisions, mainly comparing them to what I think I would do in a similar situation. I thought that the narrator didn’t necessarily know what he was getting in to when he used morels machine to record his waking life spliced into the original recording. The point behind this machine was to provide a never-ending life for certain people. Except all the characters that where on the island before where happy when recorded, but the narrator simply did it so people would think that him and Faustine where together, not realizing that the thoughts he was having at the time of recording would be the ones he will be having for the rest of time. He will not live forever as Faustine’s lover as he planed but he will live forever just as he was that week with the knowledge that he was just imitating love.
The idea that this machine will make the people recorded live on forever seems a little farfetched and is basically a theory in this book, however the fact that after a subject has been recorded their body or body parts deteriorate makes this seem more plausible in the sense that once your body and soul have been recreated your original can no longer exist. Because if it did then you would be living with two souls, two sets of thoughts, two everything. This would be to much for us to comprehend
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