Philosophy the final chapter: Part II

My final post on the book we're reading is a realization that as the book gets weirder and weirder so do my posts, so I'm going to try to tone back the crazy this week for the final post. In the final chapters of the book we see Sophie and Alberto travel into reality ( or at least Albert Knagg's reality) by way of a deus ex machina, a random act of Ascension into a higher plane, becoming transcendental beings in the process. As they aren't from Albert's reality, they find that they can interact strangely with his world, phasing through objects and walls and entirely capable of giving him a really bad day. Except for the minor fact that nobody is capable of noticing them and they aren't capable of moving anything. Albert and Sophie have finally achieved the “absolute” free will they wanted, only to live in a world where only the two of them are aware of their existence ( for the most part). They cannot die but neither can they live, a tragic ending, at least from my point of view. It seems to be that they are in the same plane of existence as an idea, but rather than affecting the world, the world can only affect them. Maybe they aren't actually capable of dying, but they will still wear away as time passes by unmercifully. Their final success is a mixed blessing and a choice that I may not have made in their place if I knew the consequences. As a great man once said “It's better to burn out than fade away.”