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Memory and the Past Quotes in Cloud Atlas

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Quote #10

Luisa is distracted by a strange gravity that makes her pause for a moment and look at [the Prophetess's] rigging, listen to its wooden bones creaking. (9.67.3)

Okay, this one is a little odd. Luisa is being drawn to the ship Adam Ewing was on. Is she a reincarnation of him, too? Or did she just remember Frobisher mentioning the journal in his letters? Ewing never mentioned a comet-shaped birthmark, but reincarnation probably isn't an exclusive club, right?