Couldn’t it Have Been a Whole Mouse Running at Half the Speed?

Nearly finished with The Steep Approach To Garbadale – it is indeed steep though quite compelling – I’m not sure of the point of the peripheral first-person narrator who comes into it occasionally and seemingly without meaning – I do hope it’s not just an affectation to sound experimental. In Thinks by David Lodge, the main female character writes a book that is seen as experimental simply because it sticks to a single person, single narrator without any of the wild variations that are present in the book in which she is described; there are transcriptions of tapes – emotionless descriptions of events and standard book like narration. I think this is to reflect the possibility of consciousness developing in computers. This seems to be happening already as described here.

I really will try Cloud Atlas again.