The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin

"Weapons. I have things that I can use."

Intelligence. Will like a last ditch. Will like a monolith. Survival. Education, a key to all patterns, itself able to impose them, to create. Consciousness in a world asleep. The dark, invulnerable centre that was certain of its own sufficiency.

William Golding, Pincher Martin (163)

An excellent, surreal, labyrinthine novel - an allegory to assert boldly the value of our Free Will against all odds. Harkening to Shakespeare's King Lear, Freud's psychoanalysis, Bergson's Creative Evolution, Time and Free Will, Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, the Bible, even a bit of dream vision, to discover the quintessence that makes us human.