[Re]reading reflection

    Going back over some things from The Magus, I made a connection that I had read over. Alison and Nicholas are both self benefiting fabricators. Alison makes fabricates justifications for her actions. "She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them. " [Pg. 34] She does this to get things that she wants. For example her kleptomania. She does this in the same way that Nicholas fabricates his "solitary heart". He puts on a show of cynicism and indifference to get women to fall for him. This is a facade because he even admits to not being a cynic by nature. He chooses to be a cynic by revolt making his solitary heart nothing more than "...a conjurer's white rabbit..."