It's all theatre.

John Bailey sundayjb at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 17:26:47 CDT 2016


The book ends that parenthesis in the theatre of the closing pages.

You could argue that everything in between is a fiction, a film which
opens with Pirate Prentice waking into the light of morning.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:45 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://grammarist.com/spelling/theater-theatre/
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why is it all theatre? Just because it's too late? Because they're going to
>> die? Or is it also because there's some awareness, on the part of the
>> dreamer here, that it's a dream?
>>
>> In a book of this scope, theatre would be--has to be--the open parenthesis
>> on all human endeavor.
>>
>>
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