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When all things returned to the sources only one thing remained, the statute of Ceres

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Marciel's life is depicted backwards in Carpentier's tale. From his death to his birth to his return to the womb. The two main significant portions of this story is the beginning and end the middle seemingly seems to filled with a random portion of events that although change Marcie'ls perspective never contribute to the message.

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Although we understand that Death to Birth is what is depicted we have to look at what happens externally to Marciel throughout the story. More than anything he seems to gain a sense of liberty little by little even in schooling: "Why think about the prism, when the clear winter light brought out all the details in the fortresses guarding the port?". Our slow descent back into the womb also leads us to have clean slate a "tabula rasa" in which we must seek experiences to continue to build our mental landscape.

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While escaping from Kovalyov the nose seems to have its conscious and life outside of being attached to Kovalyov. The Nose's apparel one captured also tells also of his activities while escaping, one of high respect especially considering it is merely a nose.

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Kovalyov searches around and asks many different officers for help only for all of them to say no. An although they catch the nose and attempt to reattach it does not stick. Despite the nose achieving a higher rank of some kind by the time it is caught Kovalyov simply returns to his old ways when he finds nose reattached.

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Although Kovalyov is the true protagonist of this story what do we have to say for the experiences of his nose? Who for a short lived a life completely free and unattached. And who may have also accomplishment much more notoriety good and bad then Kovalyov for the short time he had escaped. Was his reattachment to Kovalyov made by his own will? Is it moral to have him surgically reattached in his initial capture if he is his own consciousness?

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The Iceman being far different than any regular human was devoured by loneliness. Although alone, with seemingly no friends or family he seemed neither upset nor content but simply living. His ability to see all the past of an individual also seemed to isolate him further from being able to connect with humans socially. He was relic that contained that past and had no past of himself

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Getting closer to the iceman left the wife more and more isolated from regular people because of the lack of similarity and disappointment her family had. Her only close companion being her husband Iceman who had no past or friends of his own, lived a relatively boring existence could not birth her a child. So in wanting to get closer to her husband and see the aurora she ventured to the South Pole only to find herself trapped and alone alike the Iceman in the mainland. The people spoke words she would never understand 100% and she was stuck in an ice wasteland for what we presume to be forever.

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Although the Iceman had a relatively difficult existence in their home he was absolutely at home in the South Pole. He spoke the peoples language there, may have been closer to the only thing that he truly understood, and now anticipated a familiar companion in his kin soon to be born.