East of Eden: The Discovery of Innocence

The Disc everyplacey of Innocence on the Western limit What happens in the West? What kind of change takes place when an individual crosses over the boundary separating what has been settled from what has yet to be the frontier. Over the last some weeks I have continued to probe the fancy of the West as a place that has yet to be defined. Many cartridge holders, authors and heap ar not even sure where it starts as it is an invisible border that exists scarce in the minds of those who seek to cross it.Once across this ambiguous frontier, the traveler ncounters a place in which time seems to be suspended. As in the novel of the Garden of Eden, paradise (or the West) represents a sphere in which God has held the pass of time, and the people and creatures live in a state of eternal sameness. The idea of ghost towns in the West embodies the notion of a place in some manner being removed from the influence of time. Ghost towns exist as settlements that people forgot. However, un like settlements in the East where space is at a support and any unused building would quickly be removed and replaced by something else, in theWest these places remain, like footprints on the moon where no erosion of time can disturb them. The same principle applies to people. The West has the effect of dimout upon the minds of those who partake of it. In many ways, it resembles the genus Lotus flowers from The Odyssey. In the epic, any persons who tasted of the lotus flowers immediately forgot about home and opted to stay where they could partake of the flowers. A equivalent effect can be found among the mountain men and explorers of the granitic Mountains.Often times these men would become so intoxicated by the busted eauty and isolation they found in the West that they would spend years in the mountains instead of the months they had planned on. These men became real life Rip forefront Winkles, being suspended from time for so long they were not aware of major events such as presidential elections, new territories, or wars. not only is the West edenic in the way that time operates, it is also tight tied