1/17/2024 0 Comments Im feeling curious easter eggBut here’s a snippet as an example.Īrcher asks Mera Melaklos if she created the egg using magic. There’s a lot of stupid little nuance here that I loved that, if I went into it all, would weigh down beyond reason what is already almost certainly going to be a heavy review. Then Mera Melaklos appears in his office and shows him a new panorama egg which, of course, is exactly what he had described that night when he was daffy: a real world inside an egg, and as he stares through the peephole he can feel himself being sucked into it. I wish I could figure out if his being on the verge of making partner was reasonable in the 1970s because today the average age is something like 52.) His doctor tells him he’s not taking enough care of himself and if he doesn’t change he’ll die young. His wife, Diane, runs off with a younger lover and swears she’s not coming home. He’s a lawyer on the way to becoming partner in a New York City law firm. The next section of the book held me less captive. Archer leaves, then Melaklos and Patterson share an enigmatic moment, then the scene ends and I wasn’t sure what I had just witnessed, but I thought I liked it. He clearly knows what’s up with Melaklos and they share obvious affection. The third character in this scene-Patterson-is a retired English gentleman. Melaklos has the faint edge of a refined lady of high-society wrapped in a shroud of unpenetrable mystery. King Lear crosses the story-telling several times. This whole opening scene reads better than it’s described and it’s far more refined than you might expect. I was kind of expecting something like this given the title and the tagline. It would have to be a whole world that you could hold in your hand.”ĭaffy but … okay. So large that you could cross the sea and find strange countries. So large that if you climbed the mountains, there would be more lands on the other side. “It would have to be so large that you could walk in it and never find the edges. ![]() It would have to be a-a paradox.” He went on gathering speed and confidence as words came to him. ![]() But you should be able to hold it in your hand. “An ideal panorama egg would have to be large enough to get into, yes. Not exactly in a bad way, but more like “What prompted this author to re-imagine a child’s sweet as a sophisticated gentlemanly keepsake? And how did that turn into the kicking-off point of a novel?”Īn almost other-worldly woman-Mera Melaklos-joins them and as the night gets longer, and loopier, the protagonist-Archer-starts to get really into panorama eggs. So I’m on literally page two and baffled. I googled and I googled and I’m really good at googling, but ‘vintage,’ ‘antique,’ or otherwise quantified searches returned nothing but really old and subsequently disgusting-looking confectionary from decades past.
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