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What is a novel for? Pt 1

2/6/2013

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"Joseph, Holland's alter ego, is obviously meant to be a Christ figure, saving the girl in the story from herself"

I know the only bad review is the one you don't get ... but really?

Joseph, who didn't save shit ... who only has the vaguest ideas of how he'll accomplish anything, let alone the 'rescue' of the prostitute who is fooling him, whom he categorically fails to rescue ...

Or could the "Christ figure" be the girl herself. The one who bears miraculous wounds that come and go; the one who rescues Zhuan and Joseph both from fantasy and profligacy, the one who is tortured, suffers in silence, and who redeems the men around her, the one of whom her sister says 'By her wounds we are healed" The one who's on the fucking cover in an unraveled crown of thorns.

Could she be the one?

For fuck's sake


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