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Assignment:
Immortality Reconsidered
1. Why do you think Aunt and Uncle could not hear the voices?
2. What was Uncle Deva's original prediction about pain? Was it as "rosy" as Aunt Penelope recalls?
3. On a balance of good and suffering, which characters as most moved by good? Alternatively, who is driven by suffering?
Like Diamonds
1. How could this chapter support the idea of Belhor as Mr. g's self-doubt?
2. Belhor accuses the girl of weeping out of selfish reasons, what else could be her cause for weeping?
3. What do you make of Belhor and Mr. g's differing perspectives of the puddles at the end of the chapter? How could this relate to each character's perspective in relation to suffering?
Hand Stunting
1. Your thoughts on, "I am the Creator, I have learned much from what I have created."
2. What is worse, is it that Mr. g refuses to intervene or that he cannot predict what would follow from his intervention?
3. If minds "create reality" and "is its own place", could even an Omni-being change it?
Religion
1. Why would it be too "showy" for Mr. g to make an appearance in Aalam 104729?
2. What is the greater desire - a desire for meaning or a desire for immortality?
3. Where have we seen the idea that mystery inspires before? Do you agree? Why?
On a Small Planet
1. What does Mr. g mean by the statement "This is it, this is it."?