Now I don't have to believe anything different ever again in my entire life. And you can't live in this world that way. You've got to accept that there are other people who have a completely valid vision of the way the world works. I don't have the arrogance to assume I have any sense of what's going on, and I don't like it when people do. Everything in a work of fiction is ultimately fiction.
Fiction is nothing more than a fantastic world made up of real, or recognizably real, objects.
We are working under a handicap. Fastyngange does not end the way it begins. Indeed, it metamorphoses through realities severally discrete, yet each redefined by the other. It's also a black comedy. It started off as a children's story about a little boy with a toy castle with an oubliette in it.