Assertion: executioner | /r/CapableOf | hope for old one
Facets:
value: desperately
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The fact that a character called “the executioner” isn’t really an executioner for most of the book, which sets him frantically adrift, desperately hoping for a new groove (or an old one) that he can jack into and mindlessly glide along in, even though no such groove exists for him anymore, while creating the same feeling in the reader by stripping away many of the guideposts we’re used to (character names, recognizable settings, identifiable time periods), well, if there were more books like this, I’d be a happy reviewer.