Status Updates From La invención de Morel

Even if we left tomorrow, we would be here eternally, repeating consec. utively the moments of this week, powerless to escape from the consciousness we had in each one of them—the thoughts and feelings that the machine captured.

“When all the senses are synchronized, the soul emerges. That was to be expected. When Madeleine existed for the senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, Madeleine herself was actually there.”

The habits of our lives make us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world. Now reality appears to be changed, unreal. When a man awakens, or dies, he is slow to free himself from the terrors of the dream, from the worries and manias of life. Now it will be hard for me to break the habit of being afraid of these people.

My love for this woman has become annoying (and ridiculous: we have never even spoken to each other!).