The Book at the End of the World

So last night I was talking with a friend about the ending of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Hundred Years of Solitude," wherein the final Aureliano finally reads the undecipherable book given by the gypsies at the novels beginning. As a final catastrophic storm destroys the town of Macondo, Aureliano realizes that the book is describing the entire history of Macondo right up to this final storm, ending with a description of Aureliano reading the book; that is, Aureliano is reading himself reading Hundred Years of Solitude.

I was reminded of this ending again this morning as I read the following in the Book of Mormon:

"But the words which are sealed he shall not deliver, neither shall he deliver the book. For the book shall be sealed by the power of God, and the revelation which was sealed shall be kept in the book until the own due time of the Lord, that they may come forth; for behold, they reveal all things from the foundation of the world unto the end thereof.

And the day cometh that the words of the book which were sealed shall be read upon the house tops; and they shall be read by the power of Christ; and all things shall be revealed unto the children of men which ever have been among the children of men, and which ever will be even unto the end of the earth." (2 Nephi 27:10-11)

I thought that was pretty trippy. Of course, the difference is that for Marquez, a book that contains everything and that can't be read till the end of the world is moment of great melancholy, while for Nephi it is a thing a of great joy. I've been trying to localize why that is.