Posted by: jcompton
« on: October 16, 2004, 10:31:15 PM »Um, yeah, that was pretty much it. The chapter numbers and titles are cards of the Major Arcana, the trump cards of a Tarot deck. They are in a sequential order, because it fit and I liked the gaps it made. I didn't really think that the epilogue needed to be completely re-realized by me, the story was already told. I originally wrote a few more in-between portions but they just seemed extraneous. I guess I could restore some of the other sections, if it seems incomplete. I'm not sure now.
I "got" the device you were using, but I know nothing of tarot so I didn't get the significance of the chapter names, so that's my gap in understanding. I guess I was saying "Was there more here than I realized?" and in fact there was, and now you've told me.
You're right in that the epilogue doesn't need to be re-realized, I do think there's the "right" amount of detail here for what you tried to do. Just checking, that's all.
And I will also admit that I'm so stupid that I forgot a significant component of my own damn story until I re-read yours. And now that I've remembered, the story works rather better for me.