"Invention of Morel"

This book has created some odd highs and lows in my thinking and interest in the story. From the beginning to page 47 the ideas presented and the mystery in it were very entertaining and kept me on my toes, but from page 47 to around page seventy the book lost my interest. This may have been due to the fact that I wasn't thinking about it completely or just not into it but I believe my disinterest was pricked at the point where the narrator explains his reasoning for what may be happening on the island (bottom of page 52).  Being presented with several explanations for what is going on blocks the reader's creativity in their own idea of what is going on.  Realizing the book still had 30 pages to save itself I kept reading and it did exactly that.  After the page fifty to page seventy section that left me in stagnant thought the book picked up quickly to a point where I would read a couple lines and then think about everything coming together, not only in the book but in class as well.  

After finishing the book and coming back to what the narrator wrote on page 52 I have a hard time understanding why he is still caught up on spending time with Faustine. He explains, "I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness"(52). Doesn't this quote mean that at the point where the narrator figured out that everything he knew of Faustine was a projection of what once was, he should have not taken this reality as simply madness but realized it is merely a dream.  Dreams, although sometimes seemingly nonsensical and out there can also be the brain recreating recent events and 'projecting' them in our sleep.  Although this idea is somewhat a stretch, the similarities between dreams and Morel's projections are there.  If the narrator had realized this perhaps he would have not taken the projections as reality, in other words not taken a dream for reality. Thinking about it more putting Morel's projections under the same umbrella  dreams is not correct.  Although the projections have similar characteristics to dreams, they are simply living history.  Because these projections are nearly dreams now, it does not discredit the fact that the images or projections being shown were in fact once real.  After coming around to this thought that the projections are more than a dream but living history, I understand that the narrator is hung up on the idea that what he sees of Faustine was once real. Because of this it is just as reasonable that he is hung up on Faustine, as it is for one of us to yearn for reliving a memorable weekend.   Thats it for now...classtime.