Friday, March 16, 2007

Constant Eternity

Looking at the text The Innocent Traveller by Ethel Wilson, we again can see the concept of time though it seems not to have an impact on the characters, events or overall plot of the story. As the characters live “neither in the present nor the past nor the future, not in Time at all but in a constant moment of Eternity” (Wilson, 87), it is evident that they remain largely unaffected by time, let alone the concept that perhaps it is slipping away from them.

Wilson, Ethel. The Innocent Traveller. Toronto: McClelland & Steward, 1990.

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