"The Garden of Forking Paths" confused me at first. I couldn't understand why i was reading this mundane story about a man being pursued by a Richard Madden. Then abruptly, and a bit ungracefully in my opinion, we are introduced to the Chinese gazebo and the man's conversation about the endless novel. Like "The Museum of Eterna's Novel," this book plays with the concept of time and chance. I think the most important topic discussed in this piece is fate; the narrator is presented with a choice to relive the moment when he kills this man "Albert," but the choice he made could never be escaped, and he, knowing what he was about to do, kills him again without hesitation.
This, in a way, is kind of like reading "Eterna's Novel," he presents us with choices on how to read the novel and how to understand it, and also knows that the way it is read can nver be changed. It can't be changed, because that is the way we read it for the first time
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