I started reading the story about almost a month ago and found it interesting. It was told in a "split type" manner, started with a writer writing something. The story of the writer was written in plain text and the the other was bold faced. At first I thought the story in bold faced was actually the story the writer was writing up until the last few paragraphs with the butler and a maid named Ethel talking about something and swearing secrecy. Then I started asking whether the story in bold was actually something like in the movie
The Others. Or whether their reality was an alternate universe where our fantasy was their reality. It got me into too much thinking, almost made me think was I slow or did I not ingest the story right?
I looked it up at
Neil Gaiman's Journal... and well I got a history of the tale... but not much of the story's meaning. Suffice to say, a writer never reveals his secrets much like magicians. I looked up at some other reviews and got just about the same interpretation as what I had in mind.
I'd like to get some opinions on this as well. If you're ever able to read it, do comment here. :)
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