{"id":2339,"date":"2021-09-11T23:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T04:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2022-04-10T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T17:55:16","slug":"lx-commentary-13c-girl-in-the-tower-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-commentary-13c-girl-in-the-tower-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"LX Commentary #13c: Girl In The Tower (Part III)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Let’s pick up where we left off with the doors. SAL + MON = Salmon.<\/p>\r\n

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Two sides to every story. (That’s an Extreme joke…)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

The CD version of the album Songs in the Key of Animals<\/em><\/a> assigns these names to each disc. The LP version subtitles the sides. L Extreme<\/em><\/a> the novel pays tribute with little signs on two opposing doors Heartman finds in the hallway ostensibly leading to the brain of Benji Hughes. Can’t get much more Malkovich<\/a> than this!

Minor spoiler not completely spelled out in the book: Off-page at the end of this chapter, Heartman enters the MON door and emerges in the white room from I Am You, You Are Me, We Are One<\/a>. It’s the first step of his transformation from Heartman to Benji in the “real world” as contractually stipulated in his deal with Evilon.<\/p>\r\n

Girl in the Tower:<\/strong>\u00a0“Without warning he was overwhelmed by a cavalcade of tunes that were difficult to describe…it sounded like three songs being played at once.”<\/em>

I Am You…:<\/strong>\u00a0“Celebrities start screaming, their white-suited howls blending into white noise. All three songs play at once.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n

The magic<\/a> trick here is you can technically read Side B before Side A\u2014just like you can choose which side of a vinyl record to strat with. Initially a happy accident, once I realized how the chronology was playing out I ran with it. (A before B allows the bookends of the Benji & C letter shuffling make sense, but some readers argue reading Side B first enhances Side A…)

Other tidbits:<\/p>\r\n