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TrixRabbi posted:I gotta say, once you get about a quarter into the novel and have your grounding with all the major characters and a sense for the timeline, it's not actually that difficult, just long. Like it disorients you at first because it's not telling you who key characters are or certain plot points but by the time you're around 250-300 pages in it's actually pretty straightforward. I really like your first paragraph but I disagree with your second. The novel really isn't about beginnings and endings, and it suggests that repeatedly. The narrative text ends with Don Gately's end-of-your-rope addiction rockbottom, but the novel's first paragraph is the latest chronologically. The text is like a tennis match, turning your neck back and forth, back and forth. It does that symbolically (themes) and literally (the main text to the footnotes, the footnotes back to the main text). The reader isn't meant to unlock some secret gold nugget that levels you up, it's more like the stated AA mantra of "Keep Coming Back, It Works." That's the idea behind the "infinite", and all the references to fractals and the Sierpiński triangle.
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