Premise: This was affirmed on pages 356-7 when, near the climax, Berko Shemets, Landsmans partner and half-Jew, half-Indian cousin, is described as follows, He seems to have something important that he wants to express, a name, a spell, an equation that can bend time or unknit the strings of the world. Or maybe hes trying to keep from coming unknit himself. Chabon has taken a clever conceit, used it to tell a good story, all the while actually inviting us to consider this most profound set of questions
Statement: Chabon has taken a clever conceit, used it to tell a great story, all the while actually inviting us to consider this most profound set of questions
Relationship: entailment