Independent Reading Entry 3

Lancelot
Percy, Walker
9/4/08

As i continue to read farther more and more interesting ideas are mentioned in the book. The narrator and main character continue to describe his past to his friend and he explains that he cannot remember many things about his story. But then he goes on to say that he can remember he just does not want to. It's not that the past has too much pain to acknowledge, it's just that the past is so banal. He uses the word banality to describe the past and uses the metaphor of a tape to describe time. The past is already laid out and restricted in the limits of what has already happened and it cannot change. The present is the "tape head" that flows through everywhere. He says how the less complex and complicated that one's "everywhere" is the better they can handle and grasp everything. His cell is simple and not overwhelming and he agrees that it's all he can handle. But the future is limitless and amazing in his eyes. The future is clear and pure and open. His ideas are very intriguing and it keeps me reading, especially the way he explains and writes his ideas.