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Nathan Slake's avatar

Wow. It was already wild and brilliant, and now we have ascended another level into meta fiction.

Some stunning sentences in here, and the layering and blending of the reality of the original piece's comments about a piece of fiction is very clever. Very very clever.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Thank you so much, Nathan! Your comments and approval mean a lot to me. I’m so glad you enjoyed this “experiment” and fully grasped its nuances. I think I’ll try to explore this direction further, where the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly blurred. :)

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Hilarious! I've been chortling away here. Thanks for running with my response in such a fun and ingenious way. Loved the writing, as always: long sentences, a couple of excellent words. I used to live in Hammersmith, many eons ago! Chortle.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Terry! It was fun to write a sequel to your sequel -- if that makes sense. And speaking of excellent words, chortle just made my day. Or night. Thank you so much! I think there’s more to come.

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Lol. Excellent! Where are you then?

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Good question. Who knows? (I'm not acting mysterious here; I really have no clue yet)

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Helen's avatar

Méta selon méta ! Bravo Silvio, I chuckled and thought about the probability split among autofictional, autobiographical, and fictional parts of the story, and haven't decided on the precise amount yet hahaha. This is the best kind of stories and I certainly want to see more of it. (Bolaño shall guest star too, I reckon?) ;)

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Thank you so much, Helen! I’d love to hear your take as to that probability split. And yes: Bolaño is pretty much everywhere in my writing (and life).

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Rick Lewis's avatar

This is all sounding suspiciously biographical Silvio.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

I assure you it’s 99.999% fiction. Or maybe 99.998% :)

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Rick Lewis's avatar

not quelling my doubts here

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