Great discussion today everyone! We covered a plethora of interesting and difficult topics. I just wanted to post something regarding the discussion so anyone can bring something up that they may have wanted to say during class but didn’t get to for whatever reason. I really liked Alex’s reading of the title of the book. Throughout the entirety of the novel we kind of question the relevance of the Sirens as an appropriate symbol, but I think near to the end of the novel the imagery comes full circle, like many other themes. Mythologically speaking, the Sirens are meant to be threatening, something to steer clear of. Using Malachi as an example, we see how the reverse experience is possible. Giving into the tempting power of the Sirens (ie fate) need not be detrimental thing for oneself, as long as a person is able to find love and reverence in life through elements of of one’s surrounding that are present. Alex is this close to what you meant?
We also covered a couple other things such as consumerism of intellectual property, determinism via biology or fatalism, and implications of science as a subjective form of knowledge. Very interesting and controversial topics indeed. If anyone has anything that they would like to add to those discussions that we had feel free.