She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature.
The more I think about it, the more that I’m leaning towards this being the only true answer to the Midnight Library (at least for me).
Jumping into different stories like Nora is doing provides perspective on life but I cannot possibly see how it would work long-term - cause she'll have to live a significant portion of the other-Nora's life without critical knowledge (Olympics, research scientist, etc). I think she eventually "gains back" that knowledge, but she'd still have to fake it for a while and I feel like that would be miserable.
But also...I feel like there'd be guilt. At "taking over" the other-Nora's life and erasing her from existence. I mean, they are all the same Nora but I know if there was a parallel-dimension-me out there, that I wouldn't want to allow them into my life.
Maybe I'm thinking too much on this one :P
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