The book also gives you slightly different readings at different times. I'm going to have to seek out more things to turn into sand, so bring it on. You press the handle, grinning maniacally. And indeed, the sand rushes down the sides of the bowl. You push another, and another, and then sweep the whole mass over the edge.
White sand cascades everywhere.
Laughing, you feel the desk itself give way. The cabinet and counter start to groan as soon as you touch them. And the songs on the radio, of course, are mostly comic relief. Ditto, of course, for the last scene with the tiny figure. Certain key points in Change in the Weather and Spider and Web were likewise open to multiple interpretations, and the author naturally has never resolved those ambiguities.