Week Three – The Life Question
In Chapter 5 Section 1 Odo and Sybil discuss life, or is it magic they discuss. Here is the conversation:
. . . “Odo,” she said, “do you think magic is nothing but life in haste?”
The bird shook his head. “More likely it’s the other way around: life being the slowest magic.”
Discuss one (or more) of the following here:
- What did Sybil mean by what she said?
- What did Odo mean by his response?
- What do you think?
- Is magic nothing but life in haste?
- Is life the slowest kind of magic?
Address these questions and/or talk about the magical moments in your life.
I think that what sybil ment was, do you think that magic is just a waste of someones life, because the man spent most of his life trying to find a way to live longer.
. . . “Odo,” she said, “do you think magic is nothing but life in haste?”
What Sybil meant by this is that magic is just a way of making life situations easier. Somewhat like technology…take calculators, they help you do a math equation in third of the time it would take you to do it by hand/brain. In this case magic resolves or speeds up the process of average-real world events or situations.
I think life is the slowest kind of magic because life endures longer that a mere spell and/or enchantment; it always finds an eternal way to tend on, such as organisms dwelling in the deepest depths of the oceans’ abysses, avoiding total oblivion, while magic tends to fade as time go on.
I think Odo response means that life is magic because you are changing, but over a long period of time. We live for so long and we look completely different from when we are born to when we die. Which is like magic but working very slowly.
I think that life is the slowest kind of magic.
i ment to say “i just wanted to say”
i just wanted to i wanted to the book that you are in the mids of reading but i took intrest in another book called “The Gawgon and The Boy” about a boy who is sick and ends up meeting his hole family tree while getting better.
with love jonathan
When Odo responds with : “More likely it’s the other way around: life being the slowest magic.”, I think he means that life is an awesome type of magic because we live for years. Also I think he means that instead of life just coming and going within a couple of minutes, like Odo’s magic, it lasts for a lot longer.