Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be...
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In "Oryx and Crake," Crake presents the idea that immortality is fundamentally a concept tied to human perception of mortality. Rather than viewing death simply as an end, he suggests that mortality encompasses the awareness and fear of death that accompanies it. By rethinking the nature of life and death, Crake implies that living without the fear of mortality leads to a sense of immortality.
He likens the innocent state of...
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