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Post by newt5996 on May 27, 2020 3:49:17 GMT
That's definitely a valid reading of the text, and possibly something that O'Mahony may have had in mind. The thing with Falls the Shadow is that there's so much there to read into that I don't know if that's the only explanation. You're right there. Shadow talks a lot about the holistic theory of time travel. In rational, reasonable terms that can be quantified by the common senses, but we never get that kind of explanation for Gabriel and Tanith. Not really. It's never made clear what went wrong (or if anything went wrong) in Cathedral to create them, which arguably makes them far scarier. It's got one of my favourite development stories behind it. Allegedly, the book began life as a gathering of rumours, gossip and inference around Ghost Light, which when put together looked nothing like the actual thing. The full novel spun out from there. That last point makes perfect sense, there are parallels to the setting and structure of Ghost Light but while Ghost Light clearly gives answers to what Platt is doing (especially on a second watch) this one really doesn't, it's all very ambiguous, but ambiguity done incredibly well.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 7:29:05 GMT
You're right there. Shadow talks a lot about the holistic theory of time travel. In rational, reasonable terms that can be quantified by the common senses, but we never get that kind of explanation for Gabriel and Tanith. Not really. It's never made clear what went wrong (or if anything went wrong) in Cathedral to create them, which arguably makes them far scarier. It's got one of my favourite development stories behind it. Allegedly, the book began life as a gathering of rumours, gossip and inference around Ghost Light, which when put together looked nothing like the actual thing. The full novel spun out from there. That last point makes perfect sense, there are parallels to the setting and structure of Ghost Light but while Ghost Light clearly gives answers to what Platt is doing (especially on a second watch) this one really doesn't, it's all very ambiguous, but ambiguity done incredibly well. Right, because the ambiguity isn't from an absence of information, per se, but the same information interpreted several different ways. A question with several good answers. Understood by people who have their own reasons for not telling or knowing the entire truth (ignorance, secrecy, denial, etc.). Similar to the biases in something like Rashomon, for instance. The title is perfect for what it discusses as well, this is from T.S. Elliot's The Hollow Men: .
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Post by newt5996 on Jul 21, 2020 4:49:15 GMT
Earlier this summer I put a poll on Twitter to see if anyone would be interested in my reviewing the YA books of Rick Riordan as he is finishing his like fifth series this fall (and I remember liking Percy Jackson). They said yes so here is the first installment in a long series of reviews with Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief jacoblickliderreviews.blogspot.com/2020/07/percy-jackson-and-olympians-lightning.html
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