Talk:Newtons Sleep (novel)

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So aside from my madness somehow causing this summary to be longer than my Against Nature summary, a feat I never thought possible, and a testament to my own inability to kill my darlings, I could use some input here. Namely, I'd like some help interpreting the mirror sequences in Chapters 2 and 19, as well as Plainsong's comments in Chapter 11. Does anyone know if there's other comments about churches (with sacrifices) being used to anchor the Eleven-Day Empire? Because that's the obvious interpretation of C11 for me. And the mirror sequences are a bit hard to interpret, especially in C2, in particular a vision of a Black Sun over what seems to be Homeworld adjacent imagery. (Six crowns, model armies fighting the capital "A" Adversary, breeding machines.) Najawin ☎ 05:25, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

The C2 mirrors seem to me to be about the Ghost Point: the first shows the world as it will be, the second how it could be if the Houses win, and the third how it was before the Houses interfered in the first place. The sun is black merely because it is blotted out by a dyson sphere; I don't think there's more meaning there.

Tour interpretations of C11 seem about correct. The beginning of Chapter 7 states, "All architecture had its own ghosts, tiny imagos like loa but not loa." I think this is what the sacrifices create.

The C19 mirrors might be a bunch of references to other stories, perhaps even the other FP novels? "a triumphal military march bearing trophies back through the gates of its home city" screams the beginning of Of the City..., then "flawlessly-twinned sisters naked and fondling as their husband leered" could be taken as a reference to the multiverse wives in Warlords of Utopia, then "two distant figures skipping into the air above a twilit valley, to exchange perfectly-matched blows" sounds like the valley at the end of Warring States, then "a furtive red-headed boy in pursuit of a cocksure fellow through the choked alleys of a city more dismal yet and sprawling than Paris" could be Erasing Sherlock, then "two shapes in chess-coloured robes, their feet planted and smouldering on a mappamundi" might be the geography-focused This Town (in particular Chapter 2.49). The longer woman mirror scene is probably about something within the book. TheChampionOfTime ☎ 13:26, 12 June 2024 (UTC)