"Once more my mind wandered, in a grey silences of the night, not to Julie, but to Alison. Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive, breathing, doing, moving, but as a shovelful of ashes already scattered; as a broken like, a biological dead end, an eternal withdrawal from reality, a once complex object that now dwindled, dwindled, left nothing behind except a smudge like a fallen speck of soot on a blank sheet of paper" (pg. 441, The Magus).
Alison was sent to Greece to show Nicolas what he actually wanted but he didn't realize it. He seemed to enjoy his time with Alison while she was there, but I don't think he wanted to accept the idea of liking Alison better than Lilly/Julie. The plot of the play took a sharp turn when they decided to "kill" off Alison. Now that Alison, in Nicolas' eyes, was truly gone, he couldn't stop thinking about her. He was confused about how he felt about her. He thought she was just another girl to mess around with but finding out that she was dead was difficult for him to deal with. I think this was a pretty crucial event to happen in the book. It made Nicolas regret how he treated Alison. They made her fake death seem like it was his fault. It was interesting how much her death made Nicolas think about the times he spent with her and how much he would actually miss that.
In class we presented group projects.
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