SLSL It's raining Frogs & Mirrors

[John Bailey]

>From: Elainemmbell at aol.com
>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:57:42 EST
>
>Struggling with the--to me--unreadable "Under The Rose" I am forced to 
>wonder
>if it is all an elaborate and intentional intellectual mind game.
>
>Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
>(860) 523-9225

It's probably the most obscure in the collection, isn't it? If memory serves 
me, I remember thinking it was only really interesting in relation to V., in 
the way it was reworked and, well, given a reason for existing as a 
narrative. I guess for someone with a better knowledge of the sorts of spy 
novels or historical-political potboilers which obviously formed the 
backdrop for the story, it might be more relevant.

But then again, the lack of any real obvious point to the tale (as a 
stand-alone) does lead me to think that there might be some of those games 
going on which worry P. in the intro, ie the characters as representative of 
some more abstract principle (beyond fuzzy creatures, which could just be 
misdirection by the magician). Maybe they are personifications of chemical 
elements, which notion has been played with here before in regard to other 
stories, and the final fireball or whatever it was is a reaction resulting 
from certain elements colliding or some such or whatnot or what have you or 
whatever, etc.

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