Nathan Mortenson
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Gareth Brown:
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(view spoiler)[I seem to be the only one that missed this part… but how does Cassie “create” the books in the nothing? I LOVED everything about this book, but I still don’t get that part… :) (hide spoiler)]
Gareth Brown
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(view spoiler)[Hi Nathan
It’s supposed to be sort of abstract… but when Cassie is in the Nothing and Nowhere it is a place outside of reality, a place of creation. She manages to survive because she has the book of safety.. and while there she is overcome all of her feelings and emotions and memories, so much so she cannot handle it. To free herself from them she creates books - she is a book-lover after all - to hold each emotion or fear or memory, and throws them out into reality, across space and time. It is all possible only because she has the book of safety and therefore can exist in that place, and because it is a dimension beneath or behind our own, a place of fundamental creation. (hide spoiler)]
It’s supposed to be sort of abstract… but when Cassie is in the Nothing and Nowhere it is a place outside of reality, a place of creation. She manages to survive because she has the book of safety.. and while there she is overcome all of her feelings and emotions and memories, so much so she cannot handle it. To free herself from them she creates books - she is a book-lover after all - to hold each emotion or fear or memory, and throws them out into reality, across space and time. It is all possible only because she has the book of safety and therefore can exist in that place, and because it is a dimension beneath or behind our own, a place of fundamental creation. (hide spoiler)]
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