Abstract

This chapter recounts an imaginary situation which the author confronts with while reading The Book of Life. Realizing that the book purports to be a book on his life, he decides to test it and defeat it by looking at a future entry, and turns to an entry 18 minutes hence. He closes the book, and opens it again after a few moments, and starts reading an earlier part of the book. After a period of 18 minutes, the author finds that he is actually reading the particular entry itself which he wanted to avoid, in order to prove the book wrong. The entry said “He is reading this sentence”. The author realizes that the book is correct, and that he has not been able to refute the book. The chapter ends by leaving the reader to ponder over the question whether the world and our lives are determined.