![]() ![]() So, basically, what happens is this (rough draft, ha ha):ġ. The image was of total devastation by stars falling. Another character had such a vision, I can't recall if it was Ghost Bird, the Director or Control. Remember the flashes/visions that Saul had, of a "burning comet falling from the sky"? Something crashed in front of him, OR, he saw the crashing in a vision AFTER he was "infected" (or initiated) by the 8-petal-flower-of-brightness. Well, semiotics aside, my best guess is that Area X is this sort of a "Noah's Ark" for a (very different) sort of extraterrestrial life that can, at its whim, transcend spacetime. Are you perchance my clone? I too am a student of semiotics (among other things), wrote a paper dealing with semiotics, and when it's in fiction, yes, the king would be Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" (although Baricco and Auster are, sort of, sometimes close). I should have prepared myself better - Vandermeer left the hints - but I was not ready for an ending that essentially seemed to be "s." I just finished the book with a hearty "Wtf?" LOL ![]()
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