... once it's predetermined position and status in the socio-historical network has been internalized. The sacredness of the other and the other world is vital for the survival of a tradition (3). "Memory renders order and defines, "the self as well as the other." Self identities and ... Arcadios and Aurelianos remains same over several generations. Collective consciousness is a term developed by Emily Durkheim is the, "set of shared beliefs and ideas which act as a unifying force in society." In the novel collective loss of memory is tackled by people by putting labels on various objects .....

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... " and Johan Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust ensnare their readers in the arena of metaphysical time. Both works challenge their readers to set-aside their ideas of normal, rational, and sane, thus invoking notions of fantasies and improbable realities. Both authors utilize time as an abstract concept, changing it, ... to prove the possibility of the existence of Ts"ui Pen's book. However, as William Ashline writes, "To choose all of an infinite number of narrative paths is impossible given the finite confines of a textual world", and, "such a text is practically unfathomable because we could...

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