#284 The Thing About Cassandra- Neil Gaiman
It’s funny how themes emerge from stories and books you read
at the same time. You see a theme in one, and then, bam…the next book you read
there it is again. Mostly it's that your eyes are open to that theme, the taste
is still on your tongue, but sometimes its very cool coincidence.
A few days ago I read Kavita Through Glass, where we spent the whole story following along with a narrator’s perspective only to be shown
at the end that the important view was through the other character’s eyes. This
story is very much the same.
Stuart Innes is a model and an artist. He’s single and
doesn’t seem to have the drive to find himself a woman. Suddenly he hears
rumors that his first girlfriend, Cassandra has reappeared, and has been
looking for him. She was perfect, the one all others were judged against…the
only problem is that he made her up. So who is this woman then, well…that’s
where the fun is.
We limit ourselves sometime by the fantasies we create, and
we are defined by the lies we tell. That sounds like a good summary for this
story, but really its just a good story, no need to over think it.
Notable Passage: “People think they’re buying the art, but
really, they’re buying the story.”
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