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I looked at it more of him being greeting by Lydia in heaven than a hallucination because she was saying seethesea. He wouldn't have known that.
They had their tryst in the boathouse in Bay Ridge. The same boathouse where Dexter met Badger (for the last time) and Eddie Kerrigan (for the last time).
Except Eddie never dies in the book, so he never goes to heaven. And yeah, he's been out to sea for years (even before getting stranded) so he has no way of knowing what Lydia said. Maybe it was "Lydia's death shortly afterward"; when she's going to heaven or when her spirit is released (or how ever people want to interpret it). There are no supernatural elements in the book, but Eddie's delirium, brought on by sunstroke, starvation, thirst, and isolation -- allow for the idea of another realm seeping in through the cracks of his mind -- like being in solitary confinement, when your mind starts to play tricks on you, excerpt in this case, some of the auditory hallucinations aren't tricks, but he doesn't know that. Only the reader knows it.
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Dec 27, 2017 02:18PM
I looked at it more of him being greeting by Lydia in heaven than a hallucination because she was saying seethesea. He wouldn't have known that.
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They had their tryst in the boathouse in Bay Ridge. The same boathouse where Dexter met Badger (for the last time) and Eddie Kerrigan (for the last time).
Except Eddie never dies in the book, so he never goes to heaven. And yeah, he's been out to sea for years (even before getting stranded) so he has no way of knowing what Lydia said. Maybe it was "Lydia's death shortly afterward"; when she's going to heaven or when her spirit is released (or how ever people want to interpret it). There are no supernatural elements in the book, but Eddie's delirium, brought on by sunstroke, starvation, thirst, and isolation -- allow for the idea of another realm seeping in through the cracks of his mind -- like being in solitary confinement, when your mind starts to play tricks on you, excerpt in this case, some of the auditory hallucinations aren't tricks, but he doesn't know that. Only the reader knows it.
