The ending of 'Song of Susannah' -- **SPOILERS**

[CCAL]

Interesting Nem. Thank God its a free country, cause I couldnt disagree more with your opinion. Ofcourse like you said "Hey, but that's just my opinion!" You are correct in that. We are free to agree to disagree here. The important thing is that we can also listen to each other. You spoke well and gave your reasonng for your conclusion. In MY opinion SK could have stayed with story and explored it more-but he had to make a decision on what pace to make. It cant be easy to choose your pace in a story. Who am I to have the audacity to declare a professionals "pace" is too fast!? I'm just Constant Reader-along for the ride. I dont hold the slow/fast button-just the go/stop button.So if storys going too fast I can take that 'collar' you mentioned off and close the book.Ofcourse I realize what you mean, but the story IS SK's-he owns that baby.Publishers even agree and pay the man his due. They also put the blame if there is any right smack in THE MANS lap. So if you think SK's baby is toddling too fast, you just have to hold your breath & pray baby doesnt fall!Just put thatr book down til your ready to go again.

[Robert Gray]

I try not to read any commentary about books I haven't read yet, so Sai King's appearance in the story was a surprise to me. I didn't have any bias formed one way or the other about it. I was not jolted out of the story by this notion. Everything seemed to follow a logical order to me. My willingness to suspend disbelief was not damaged in the least. Event unfolded in a way best described by a world Sai King really likes, implacable. Of course it could just be that my mind, like that of a child, is still willing to accept certain things. The elastic band of my imagination has not worn out or grown brittle. It doesn't snap painfully back when I encounter something that asks me to redraw the boundaries of reality once more.

Heinlein's "Number of the Beast" approaches this topic, albeit in an indirect way. That story also deals with multiverse, specifically one that spins on like a perpetual motion machine. The dreams and stories of one universe spawning others who in turn spawn others and so on down the line. We actually see one of the characters meet people from the universe created by her own stories. The meeting is uncomfortable to say the least, as it is not everyday that one meets one's creator (moreover when you find them wanting).

If time and space are infinite while the human mind is finite, there is nothing we can imagine that doesn't exist somewhere or some when. That is a sobering thought. The very fact that you and I (and Sai King) can imagine a creature such as Pennywise the Dancing Clown means with an absolute mathematical certainty that It exists or will. If energy cannot be destroyed, i.e. only transformed into another form, does our very practice of imagining these other people, places, and things set the ball in motion. Is that the transformation point? I consider these interesting topics.