lapsedmodernist | (no subject)

intertextual connections I noticed in "The Cloud Atlas" beyond the ongoing successive references in each story to the previous one

so, in no particular order:

1. both in the Adam Ewing sea voyage story and the Sloosha's Crossing story the framing--these are texts left by fathers for their sons, about events of very long ago

2. in the second part of the Sea Journal story there is a line about all beliefs eventually becoming ruins or something like that--this resonates with the story-within-the-story in Sloosha's Crossing, about the man who goes up the mountain and finds the ruins of old Temples, along with the Devil--the same place where the protagonist of Slusha's Crossing and his Prescient/Anthropologist guest go later and find the decaying observatories

3. The composer's Cloud Atlas quartet is structured the same way the book itself is, as is revealed in his penultimate (?) I think letter to Sixsmith

4. the ideas of abolitionism in the Orison of Sonmi-451 and in the Sea Diaries

5. When Autua tells Adam Ewing that he saved his own life by saving Autua's life, his reasoning and phrasing resonates with the Luisa Rey Mystery character's internal and external monologues about his saving Luisa Rey's life, and how her father had saved his life back in the day

6. The double-crossing and twist/reveral at the very end of the narrative! With Sonmi and her faux-Union lover, and then with Adam Ewing and Arsenic Goose.

I will add more as I think of them