I wonder whether in this scene Forest is slyly invoking the Chekhovian dictum about the gun hanging on the wall. As this book is concerned with the creative process generally, it might be a metaliterary allusion to the need for the gun to go off.
By the way, I love the description in an earlier chapter of finding the right detail, when Ginty suggests "a frozen sea" and they all agree that this suggestion rings true in a way that others don't. It's a perfect description of the creative process of writing fiction: the right detail just rings true.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
Re: the (probably improbable, but nevertheless) gun incident
Date: 2014-10-19 10:14 pm (UTC)By the way, I love the description in an earlier chapter of finding the right detail, when Ginty suggests "a frozen sea" and they all agree that this suggestion rings true in a way that others don't. It's a perfect description of the creative process of writing fiction: the right detail just rings true.