NP but The Books of Jacob

[Mark Kohut]

SPOILER ALERT as I type out a great passage from the book,
 this and some happenings in the sand remind imaginatively of
TRP, the sand trek echoing in me--and you?-- parts of AtD, I suggest.......
It does not read to me like any influence on her but who knows?  just an
imagination likeness.

But this:           Of how the world was born of God's exhaustion

"Every now and then, God wearies of his own luminous silence, and infinity
starts to make him
feel a little sick. Then, like an enormous omnisenstiive oyster, hs
body---so naked and delicate--feels
the slightest tremble in the particles of light, scrunches up inside
itself, leaving just enough space for
the emergence ---at once and out of nowhere--of a world. The world comes
quick, though at first it resembles
mold, delicate and pale, but soon it grows, and individual fibers connect,
creating a powerful surrounding tissue.
Then it hardens; then it starts to take on colors. This is accompanied by a
low, barely audible sound, a
gloomy vibration that makes the anxious atoms quake. And it is from this
motion that particles come into being,
and then grains of sand and drops of water, which divide the world in two.
     We find ourselves on the side of sand. "---Chap 5, p. 870 (the pages
run backward numerically!)

Ancient folktale-like created legend cum modern science storytelling
mystery of the cosmos. Will become famous, I say...