Starting to Understand (Carlye Nealon)

I’m starting to understand the narrator’s thought process more and more as I keep reading.  He rambles on because he is just writing down whatever comes to mind.  In class, we talked about it and at first I was annoyed with how he wrote but then I thought about it.  If I were to write down whatever thoughts popped into my head, it would be messed up and confusing just like this.  This is because one thought leads to another and then to another.

One part that I want to focus on during the reading tonight is the “most advantageous advantage,” (page 17).  When the narrator first brought this up I was confused.  I did not understand what he meant by there being an advantage that will make people break the laws of reason to attain it.  However, when he said one’s free unfettered choice,” (page 17), it all clicked.  I understand that people want that free choice to do what they want to do and not what others tell them they have to do.  They may go against the laws of reason/nature to show that they have this choice to do what they want.