Reflection #3
As of now in the book the life of Sophie is getting stranger and stranger and it’s really confusing. It’s really odd how close the names of Alberto Knox and Albert Knag are so close together and how Alberto keeps calling Sophie by the name Hilde. I don’t think it is coincidental at all either. My thoughts are that Alberto is really Albert and Sophie is actually Hilde, but trying to make sense of it with the evidence in the book is very confusing. If Alberto and Sophie are actually father and daughter then how are they living two lives? I’ve considered the possibility that Alberto and Sophie are living in a world that is parallel to Albert and Hilde and that is how they can all exist at the same time is similar yet different lives. This idea could also make more sense for how Alberto was able to give Sophie a philosophy lesson in ancient Greece with Socrates. Is time travel possible if there is a possibility of accessing parallel universes? I also feel that it is probable that Sophie’s father could be Alberto because they are both living somewhere far off and are not actively in the lives of Sophie and Hilde. Another confusing part of the novel for me is the role of Sophie’s mother. Although it seems as she is clueless to what is going on with her daughter when she accuses her of using drugs because of her new thought process, her mother still seems as though she is not completely involved in her daughter's life. It’s strange that her mother doesn’t want to meet who her daughter is meeting with almost daily. For a mother that seems to care about her daughter she is very lax about her philosophy lessons. This is why I also think her mother is somehow apart of all of the oddness going on in Sophie’s life.
Connection #3
The chapter about Spinoza is what has intrigued me the most lately. Alberto talks about how Spinoza believed that “nature is with God” and how “God is the world”. This was a moment for me when I had to put the book down for a moment and think further about this new idea. Can God be an entity that is all around us rather than a single “person” or object? During class we often discuss if God is actually real. During one of the discussions we watched a crash course video that touched what God looks like. I believe some of the options were a turtle or even a rock and while these idea were funny, it made me think of the endless possibilities of what God could actually be. After reading that God is the world it made me consider that rather than taking a human form or even a rock what if God is simply the world around us. He could be so powerful that he is the beautiful world we all live in. This idea also lead me to think about life after death. If God could be the world then maybe when we die and our bodies decompose we simply become one with the earth and with God. All of these new ideas were slightly overwhelming and I still continue to thoughts during my nightly showers, but what’s really amazing is the possibility of the unknown are truly endless.
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