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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: Lord of Light
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 11:56:45 EST
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> From: stever@cit-vax (Steve Rabin    )
> 
> But can you justify the chapter numbering (4 1 2 3 5 ...) ?

What need justification?  This is nothing new; merely used
better than most writers use it.  The technique is called
"framing," and conveyed the point of the story quite well.
He could have made the first chapter a prologue and the last
an epilogue, but why bother?  The point is that the logical
progression of the tale does not take place temporally.  By
arranging it this way, the reader is taken through an experience
that is set up by the first chapter to give context, and
leads to the last chapter with the inevitability of a
a Beethoven symphony.

So there.

			-- SKZB