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Now that I'm getting close to the end of my degree I've allowed myself the time to start work on a novella called Paradoxia Grande. The namesake of the story is a hotel in which the ambience is drawn from the mental images of its guests. Murder after murder haunts the place as Sebastian Rook (Now called Galileo Rook because I saw two T.V. programmes with Sebastians as butlers and thought it was perhaps exhausted as a staple. 04/06), the only employee willing to remain there, endeavours to create from his memory the perfect dream of his dead family. My current thought on this is that I have used little, and I mean very little, narrative. It is predominantly dialogue. I'm not 100% sure that it is a great idea but in this case I wanted to foreground the absence of all the "He said...He thought, He articulated with a solemn air..."blah blah that makes up a large part of writing (I recinded this idea but still keep it limited. 04/06). The chapters are small and the narrative, when it does appear, is either innanely detailed or subjectively focalised. In either case the Paradoxia Grande is a showcase for the imagination when left to its own creation.
Below is the first five draft chapters
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