<p>And that’s that. </p>
<p>As I was perusing through the story, I kept noticing the motif of duality. The double bed in Meursault’s Paris hotel room. His two plane tickets. The two souls - Meursault’s and his long forgotten true love. The two plane tickets. The two hands. The two sons. The two similar trajectories of Meursault and his father. </p>
<p>The latter two parts may be a little hard to understand - I know I did not integrate the latter two parts smoothly into the story. Basically, Meursault, by taking the prison door, effects some change in the deep past … yes, the story has dived into the realm of science fiction by now. And this change causes his would-be father to get genetically screened BEFORE having a child, and when his would-be father finds out the bad genetic news, he commits suicide.</p>
<p>The dates are provided to help one with the timeline, but I know I could have made the latter two parts fit better into the framework of the existing story. Perhaps I could have done so, even without introducing the supernatural or invoking science fiction. In any case, I just had to have the door scene … the picture “1000 doors” just thoroughly fascinated me.</p>