"Difficult"?

[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Thu, 22 May 1997, MESCOLAR wrote:
>           This reminds me of a discussion I had in English class about
>           Lot 49.  A whole bunch of people were mad that the whole
>           Tristero mystery wasn't spelled out by the end of the book.
>           But that's just the point of the Tristero/lot49.  If the
>           answer were right in front of us, we wouldn't have all the
>           fun of looking and guessing and deciding what we wanted our
>           own answers to be!

The ending of _Lot 49_...how can I describe the affect it had on me?  It
must be what the Zen monks call _satori_.  It was like I'd just read a
book-length ko'an, a riddle with no rational solution that forced my mind
on to a higher level.  I just sat there, incredulous, feeling a flux of
emotions.  But they ended with laughter...

Max

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