Not yet ended.

"You do not know my meaning yet" (Fowles, 449)
When I was writing my paper, I was very interested in this quote.  It takes place when Hermes and Nick are talking.  Hermes hands a backet to Nick and when Nick looks in, he finds fruit, he is puzzled and when he looks up, Hermes simply says "she waits".  This is so very simbolic for Europa and the story of her abduction.  Europa has on her basket a picture of her grandmother Io, the cow.  It is very well known that Io was turned into a cow after her abduction.  Europas destiny was written on the very basket that she carried, and she was simply too busy with her play to look at it and possibly change her future.  Hermes telling Nick "she waits" to me means that his destiny waits.  I also found it very fitting that it was the messenger God to give him this message.  We all have our destiny written out for us, our destiny's wait for us.  The fates were the greek godesses that controlled our destiny, they read the thread of life and they acted according to it in dealing with our fate. They are always with us, assigned to us at birth, and they make sure that we follow things. They are also known as moirae, their name litterally means "parts", "shares", and "alloted portions", they control these certain "parts of our lives.  Like Nick, we always have free will, however, there are these certain parts of our lives that we "share" with the Moirae.  These are the stepping stones that make up our lives, we must always follow our fate because it is what the Gods planned for us.  If we do not follow our fate, then we willl live a very boring life.  After all, a life without the Gods is not worth living.  The Moirae read strands that are woven by the great spinner Klotho spun the great threads with all the details, and a goddess named Atropios cut the threads he spun.  All the thought of spinning thread and cutting it reminded me of spiders, they create a giant masterpiece.  "You do not yet know my meaning", the meaning of a web cannot be determinded until it is ended.  Just as Arachne's tapestry could not fully be seen until she had finished.  We do not yet know the meaning of our lives, until we look at the basket we carry and see the past repeated.  However, I do not believe that any of us can truly see the signs so clearly written in front of us until we knock on the door of death.  We do not yet know the meaning of life, because we do not yet know the meaning of death.  The circle must be fully drawn for us to understand that it has not corners, no true end or beginning, just one giant cycle that never ends.  A web is a circle, we must look at is after we are finished living it to truly understand....