Who are you Calvin Bledsoe
Life. Death.
“For instance: “I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.” This was one of my mother’s very favorite quotes from John Calvin.” Page 13.
Existential crisis. Family drama. Blogging for the pellet stove industry.
The construction of the novel itself is a bit different, perhaps a structure I don’t understand on the outside, but there are carefully numbered chapters, but there’s also a single running index, almost like acts, or scenes, those are numbered differently.
The simplest example? Traditional Shakespeare — the way I was taught — a line is referred to by Act, Scene, Line number within the scene. There’s an alternative method, just raw one number, starting at the play’s first line, and continuing on through to the end. I’ve seen in modern scholarship, but I’m pretty much entrenched with Act, Scene, Line format myself. Habit?
The construction of this comic novel novel follows a pattern I couldn’t totally discern. In times of crisis, it was suitable, puzzling distraction.
Who are you Calvin Bledsoe
