October 13th

"Once you have a double on the scene, it's like entering a hall of mirrors; everything is elusive, stretching away into a perspective where nothing is ever final."  -Page 229

I found this quote to be very interesting. The quote itself is pretty self explanatory, however i found it interesting because this is something that you can relate to Calasso, our own life, and the Magus. The qoute is basically saying that once you substitute the real thing for a fake, or a copy, you can never be one hundred percent sure that you have the real thing. Once you set the fake out into motion, one can never be sure if they posess the fake or the real. In Calasso, we see this quote pertaining to the Palladium. When the Achaeans came to take Troy, the Trojans had a copy of the Palladium made. It was a means of perception, if the greeks managed to steal the copy Palladium, Troy would not fall. We see this quote pertaining to real life in several ways. For example, in the gameshow Survivior, you see the hidden immunity faked or replicated several times. It creates a twist in the show, because the other contendors have no idea whether it's real or fake. It's elusive and never final. We can also see this quote pertaining to the Magus. Nicholaus has a suspicion that Julie has a twin sister, June, or so we are told. Hence, he feels that he is being tricked and decieved, and never feels like anything is final.