For a first book, Sisustus is unusually self-willed. The most important thing is the story behind the uneventfulness. Sirola explores a single moment, a single thing cut loose from the world. It is as if he believes that if one looks long enough at something, its form, one can detect in it the past, the present and the future.
Entities are crystallised time.
For the characters in Sirola's short stories, the world is made up of observations, and observations of the world are born of the way in which one approaches the world. The world, the here and now, lies in obsessions. Like a child, the path-walker cannot know whether the world still exists if he does not look at it. Neither does he know where he himself has come from. And that is the destiny of every path-walker.