ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[Keith]

It then goes beyond the act of reading to the acts of living,  
thinking, and perceiving. That Tibetan seal is on the cover for a  
reason. From a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, we are all fictional  
characters. Note the similarity between Tore's quotes below (and our  
discussion about the reality/fiction of the Chums in general) and  
some Tibetan Buddhist quotes from this site:

http://tinyurl.com/75utv


On Mar 23, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

The Chums constantly flicker in and out of reality, or - perhaps more  
precisely - slide back and forth along a scale where 'reality'  
constitutes one pole and 'fiction' the other.

  the Chums' "dual citizenship in the realms of the quotidian and the  
ghostly"

The act of reading itself, then, allows us to exist simultaneously in  
reality and the world of fiction, just like the Chums' themselves.  
Reading itself is depicted as a sort of bilocation, then, less  
supernatural perhaps than the other instances shown in the book, but  
hardly less magical.