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dishonesty is good, feelings are bad.
I think that the key to understanding this book is in abandoning all notions of language as we know it (which is hard and rediculous, as this is a book, made of the written word.)This is a scenario that is post-spoken language, where communication is visual, as well as personal. Some cahracters talk to themselves by barking into leather bags and listening back to it later, some put on different costumes. This is a completely alien world that goes beyond the tropes of sci-fi and fantasy and actua...
So much of this seems obfuscating-for-obfuscation's sake, but when it works, man:"I wish I could see my father's name. I would not know the grammatical tense that could properly remark on my father. There is a portion of time that my own language cannot remark. A limitation, probably, in my mouth. In this portion of time is where my father is hidden. If I learn a new language, my father might come true. If I reach deep into my mouth and scoop out a larger cave. If I make do with less of myself,