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Emily,
Yeah discussions do go all over the place, but that's because ideas can go so many different ways. and you shouldn't feel like there is nothing you can say about the readings, because you can say whatever calls to you. It could be something you think is a symbol (i mean, my question was if Butler is saying that love is a weakness.. that is nothing like what we are talking about in class, but it stood out as a potential question.) You're a smart girl, I know you will come up with something :)

You know.. the time travel that you were talking about.. I was about to answer "well the inanimate objects she brings back existed at one point, just maybe not in the form of a toothbrush, etc." but now i see what you're saying. even if rufus died, his body will still be decomposed beneath the ground 100 years later. (isn't it a theory that all matter will ALWAYS be on the earth, no matter how small?) so yeah i see what you're saying. she could have drug back a bunch of dust as his decomposed body or something lol. I think that would just get too technical for the novel though, and Butler decides to think that when a person dies, they do not exist. (which now it's really making me pissed, because if you crushed the tooth brush into powder, i bet Dana could have brought it back! it's not the same toothbrush, it's a dead toothbrush..)
well geeze emily. now you've got me thinkin about that haha