Who is Tony Webster? (Zane Mandell)

It is unfortunate that we are to post every night on this short novel as I think all parts require the others to truly understand. While I mentioned yesterday that it is chronological, I feel that which is extracted from the novel and take away after it is done can only be seen through a full picture. But this picture is not formed with this same sense of chronology. It seems, to give a metaphor for a painting, that the picture is appearing in small blotches, randomly so that nothing can really be discerned in context on the full complete picture. It seems there is a key to understanding what Tony is doing with his recount but I don’t know what it is. In fact I don’t even know what type this key would even form; is it an idea, a word, a person, a place, or something else I am unable to name in terms of type. Anyway, it still remains a fine read, but that is all it truly can be at the moment.

Still, some of the blotches are clearer than before so I would like to look more at the narrator here. I find him speaking to the reader addressing a ‘you’ that he is unaware of. He builds on this in order to question himself, but as he approaches cliffs that he is fully aware of he turns away at the last moment for a break. When he tries to apply his “theory” to himself on page 48 or when he has witnessed the Severn Bore on page 39 he is getting at something deep within himself, but then turns to something else, focusing primarily on Veronica in this section of the reading. Looking back now I find I have not characterized the narrator at all. But I do this with an honest intention to leave that for later. The painting has come into view, but not even the borders are distinct from the painting itself.