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derikb

Thanks for taking the time to respond, Steve.

I should note that it isn't the removal from contemporary reality that lost me on Mocky's narrative. I love all kinds of the fantastical from surrealism to magic realism to out-and-out genre works. For me it was that by the time I got to Mocky's story it was perhaps too much of an echo of the preceding two levels of narrative.

That's a danger when embedding narrative levels like that, particularly when you first or maybe uppermost narrative levels are considerably larger than the last/lowest one.

It's like when reading the classic tales within tales (Arabian Nights, Decameron, Canterbury Tales) the framing (first/uppermost) narratives are the smallest but also the least engrossing. The embedded tales are the meat (or the tofu (I'm a vegetarian)) of the meal. In those cases you work you way too that hearty middle.

In your novel I felt like the meat came first with that great beginning about Saul and Aunt Keni. By the time I worked down to Mocky's smaller echoed tale, I was less interested.

Also, for what it's worth, I did not take issue with issue with Saul's tale's circularity. I enjoyed that aspect of it. Makes me think of a line from one of my favorite movies, Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, having travelled halfway across the country one character says "you know, you come to some different place, and it all kind of looks the same." (I heavily paraphrase, my mind is not one for verbatim quotes).

derikb

And pardon typos and such.

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I'm still in the middle of the book so I quickly scrolled by all of the posts that went into some detail, saving them for afterwards. I do want to express my appreciation to you Mr. Stern and to Dan & Derik for taking out time to explain and expand on the book.

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As a Czechoslovak born, I was bred on stories about golems. They always helped me to escape to another universe - more magical and daring. Without any doubt, Angel of Forgetfulness taps into something under the surface, which I think is intriguing, and there is a mystery there which drags you through. Your axe, Steve, is trully sharp. Ouch ...

By the way, Trotsky was not only fond of political angels but devils as well ;-). As he put it: No devil ever yet voluntarily cut off his own claws.

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