Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Factors used in calculating the coefficient include ability to believe fervency of that belief humility willingness to look stupid willingness to have heart broken willingness to see U31 as nonboring or, better yet, to see it as interesting, and maybe even important, and despite its deeply defective nature possibly even worth saving Any inhabitant with a negative attachment coefficient (in which case it is referred to as a coefficient of ironic detachment) will be placed on probation pending review of the individual’s suitability for continued inclusion within the U31 diegetic space. A coefficient of 1.00 or above is required in order to be a hero. In order to qualify as a protagonist, a human must be able to demonstrate an attachment coefficient of at least 0.75. So why not call her Marie, that was my thinking. I suppose technically you could make the argument that every woman is The Woman I Never Married. A little paradox, you might think, but really, The Woman I Never Married is a perfectly valid ontological entity. It was a meandering, interesting and unique book that seemed to have a lot to do with Charles Yu personally, though that was perhaps just the auto-biographical feel.Ĭitations I’ve never been married. He harks back to how his father invented the time machine, but failed to profit from it, instead trapping himself in a diorama/time-loop. The novel addresses all sorts of interesting paradoxes, including loops and writing paradoxical warnings to oneself. So, for example, Luke Skywalker is a character because, well, he's part of a popular science-fiction world.
The universe in which he lives is kind of a mix of our own plus all sorts of fictive universes. Ĭharles Yu digs through baggage from his past in the guise of a real-life time-machine mechanic. If my notes serve to trigger an interest in this book, then I'm happy for you. Please see Wikipedia for a summary if I've failed to provide one sufficient for your purposes. Any benefit you gain from reading these notes is purely incidental to the purpose they serve of reminding me what I once read.
In some cases, I've pointed out which of these applies to which citation in others, I have not. They include citations I found interesting or enlightening or particularly well-written. Disclaimer: these are notes I took while reading this book.
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