Finished

      As a whole I quite enjoyed this book. It was smart and fast paced however it didn't have the density and complexity that has made some of the other books we read in class difficult, and thus annoying, to read. Somehow this book was able to elude to the philosophy that seems to be center to the lesson plan of our class without sounding overly pretentious with long sentences containing superfluous, educated words whose sole purpose was to make the book sound smart. This book is smart without trying to hard.
     I found that time was an extremly important concept in the novel. The narrator seemed particularly occupied by his inability to grasp time, how it held the world in an order, yet seemed to pass quicker with every day. The author even allowed us to feal the burden of time by passing by 49 years within a few pages. He effectively sums up a mans life within a terrivly short about of space and honestly that's a bit scary. He passed life so quickly when he started where all of us are and it makes us question if were really growing up, and what we're growing up for. His life seemed pretty boring and unextrodinary in his "older" age, and yet for some reason he was okay with it.
    Then we have to take into account how time destroys our memories and influences history. History is marked by time yet time allows history to fade away until we are left with small scraps that we must interpret. There is no way the interpretation could be known as correct because honestly we are all just guessing and our guesses are influenced by our own feeling and a need to put the blame for something on an infividual person. This leads me to the big suprise that is revealed, Adrian's baby. It seems that in a way Adrian blamed Tony for his mistake because if Tony's letter . However he also saw a situation in which everyone was to blame. He tried to write it out as an equation, however history and time are not as solid as numbers. There is no way of knowing the truth because it has all passed and now everything is looked at in retrospect. We simply cannot know why things happen and that is what I believe tot be the point.