Word: normale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resurrection is the central theme. Crist says, "A lot of people are positive that science has disproved that man can rise from the dead. I don't rebutt that. Science only describes something the way it normally happens. A miracle isn't normal. You can also look at the New Testament as a historical document. I'm very impressed with the evidence for that. This summer I ran into somebody who believed the Bible was written years after the events to oppress the poor. That's not an informed opinion. The Book of John was written by an eyewitness...
During the course of the novel, Milkman must come to recognize Pilate's essential healthiness. But the process is slow, and the realization that Pilate's kind of freedom is won at the cost of a normal life comes painfully. First, Milkman must rediscover his family's roots, and try alternate paths to liberation. For a while he works in his father's office, collecting rents; then he tries a love affair with Pilate's not-quite-crazy granddaughter. These routes are not satisfying, but neither is his friendship with Guitar, a violently angry man who retaliates against murders...
...recognition of that fact alters his view of the world. The apparent perversity of Milkman's mother is the natural outgrowth of her solitude; his father watched his own father die, and he cannot free himself of the bitterness. None of the characters in this novel are completely normal, but Morrison's presentation of how they have been warped by their world is compelling and beautiful...
...moves from the understandable to the obstruse. When he finally stands up, facing death at the hands of his former friend, he has found his freedom, but it is a freedom that will--literally, it seems--let him ride the wind. Like his aunt Pilate, Milkman has left the normal world, and his new-found vitality is mystical and frightening...
...theory did not come as a surprise to Prigogine, who is also director of the Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the University of Texas, Austin. Nor did last week's prize. "The professor more or less expected this reward," said a colleague. "It was in the normal course of things...