A story about a little boy and a number of supernatural women who make his life very interesting for a few days when he is seven years old. The nature of these women, and of reality itself, is never fully explained. When our young hero asks about such things he is told that he doesn’t need to know about them and he wouldn’t understand anyway. The Ocean at The End of the Lane brings to mind The Night Circus and Neverwhere in that hidden just below the world we know and think we understand is a vaster and much more…
Tag: revelation
A single rose can be my garden. . .
Leo Buscalia was a happy loud mouth that liked to state the bleeding obvious and make it sound like a blinding revelation. He was fun to listen to, his books can’t touch the power of his speaking. I only saw him on TV, but he was fun to watch. Leo Buscalia told a story about a young woman in one of his classes. She kills herself one night when her boyfriend neglects to call her. It’s a standard sad and poignant story. But Leo takes it to the next logical step, he asks: What could she have done, besides killing…