Judith Galle

I liked the acting, and the story of the starving writer, that all he wants to do is write. After an endless stream of rejection letters for the book he knows is his masterpiece, he goes into a dark place. I don’t like his decision to plagiarize a found manuscript word for word, but one can surmise that it is an even greater masterpiece, and Rory gets this immediately. Certainly, on the deepest level of his being, he knows he is a fake. His world unravels in the process of owning up to the truth. He can never move on with his own alternate universe, the true one. He is stuck. I’m still deconstructing the other two stories 1) past and present day of the actual writer, and I have a difficult row with 2) Clayton and his dilemma. Their women which whom they share the good life prove to be the essence of salvation, deepest emotion, and ground them in the real world. The journey of the authors is a surreal duality. Precarious balancing act.