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The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick

 

Here begins the novel.

This point occurs just after the beginning of the narrative.

Here a second character is introduced.

The third chapter starts now.

Perhaps this section should have been removed.

This chapter is a flashback.

Here the author lost track of his narrative (accounting for why a reader’s attention wanders).

This must be the middle of the novel.

Nowhere else except here can be the climax.

The action, previously set in the past, now shifts into the present.

The last third of the book begins when the protagonist dies.

Either the author or the publisher made a strategic mistake.

Events within the story suggest continuance into the future.

This novel ends suddenly.

                            -Crux Desperationis 1, 2011

 

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