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Originally Posted by neilmarr
***What did you get out of it?***
A warts-n-all poetic description of how things might be when we lose special and personal identity, I think, Ea. The way guards and prisoners might feel when the bars are removed and not only do the survivors -- those who hold and those who are held -- of the camps exist, but lions can enter the cage. You'll have noticed the lack of character names and traditional heroics. It's such a fine book that you don't only read its pages ... you can enter them. N
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Interesting. My thoughts never went that far. I think I may be reading it at a much more 'face-value' level and that's why it - partly - failed for me.