Rank: Fry
Groups: Shoal
Joined: 1/24/2009
Posts: 3
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Plenty of theories flying around about what the ending means, and what the whole story actually represents. But for me, I'm wrestling with one thing above all:
How exactly is Ryan Mitchell significant? For, his is the mantra very early on to keep Eric safe. Yet, in the article reporting Eric's demise, Ryan Mitchell is the police psychologist. Is the story actually back to front, like Memento?
I enjoyed the rollercoaster ride through reading the book, and loved the links and allusions to films etc., but I'm insufficiently well read to pick up on things I have seen commented on such as the Trey Fidorous - Tryphiodorus connection (see other posts). And the ending left me a little cold/unsatisfied - with a strange reflection of Eric's feelings of something significant I had subconsciously picked up from the book, but couldn't pin down.
And yet here I am posting about it - hmm.
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Rank: Fry
Groups: Shoal
Joined: 3/23/2009
Posts: 24
Location: Florida
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Well Ryan Mitchell MUST exist in reality for the Ryan Mitchell mantra to be any kind of defense against the Ludovician. I think the more important question here is: What is the connection between Ryan Mitchell, a police psychologist, and Eric Sanderson 1? There must be some kind of external connection that isn't easily identifiable because the Ryan Mitchell mantra is a veritable farrago of information that, I think, must pertain to Ryan Mitchell.
How Eric Sanderson 1 got this information, I have no idea.
And there it was, full of everything and overwhelming nothingness.
Leo went on, a false idea resting in a candy wrapper of societal perfection.
He had no idea what it meant to see, what it meant to know.
And there was no way for me to un-know. No way for me to un-see. No way I could ever shield myself in one of those brightly colored candy wrappers of pretend ignorance.
I think I wanted it that way, to be like Leo, but I knew that would never happen.
~A snippet of things to come.
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