A few moments later I set off back to my dull, daily penal colony on the far side of the dream; as Adam left the Garden of Eden, perhaps...except that I knew there were no gods, and nothing was going to bar my return. -Page 356
I was scanning over the Magus once again looking at all the marked pages and underlinings and this passage seemed to jump out at me. I found it interesting because it's kind of at the beginning of the novel before Nicholaus has taken on much of the mystery. It's kind of his thoughts before entering the labrynth. He knows that something mystical is about to take place. He feels that his ordianry life is dull and boring and he is ready for an adventure. He refers to his colony life as the far side of the dream. This passage is also hinting to us that he feels substantial for the playwrite to carry on; he is needed for this mystery to take place. Conchis shortly reverses his thinking, as he does so many times, and cuts him off from Bourani. He makes him feel unimportant and not needed. This turns Nicholaus' reality upside down and engulfs him in a world of myth. He never knows what to expect and who to trust from start to finish.
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