The Snake That Swallows Its Tail

Soul Mountain ends with the nar­ra­tor con­vinced that God is com­mu­ni­cat­ing to him in the form of a frogs’ blink­ing eye, and that’s become my favourite part of the whole book. I always read the intro­duc­tion both before I start the book and after I fin­ish the book, and this time the intro­duc­tion tied every­thing togeth­er in the end. I final­ly under­stood the big pic­ture in what was a mot­ley, slow-start­ing nov­el. I want­ed to read Soul Mountain again, almost imme­di­ate­ly after I fin­ished it, but I decid­ed to start on Thus Spoke Zarathustra, even though both are rel­e­vant right now.

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