/lit/ - Literature

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>The visuality of Bantock's approach also allows for a layered recurrence of imagery, for example Griffin's final postcard to Sabine in the third book (heading'd "The Gordian Mirror"—an especially loaded name, Sabine's previously implied role as Griffin's shadow self being made out to be a Gordian Knot) is a directionally and chromatically inverted version of a card he had sent in the beginning of the second book. And then that final postcard closing the trilogy, the synthesis and integration of Griffin and Sabine's styles, Sabine's writing but Griffin's Gryphon Cards logo, and the subtle recurrence of that fish-and-wine-glass image from Griffin's first postcard in book one, lent yet greater significance by Maud's Jungianly informed Tarot reading with Griffin, cards of "Unthinking Drinking, the goldfish escaping from the glass" as well as "the Blind Leading The Blind" appearing and being "emblematic of a number of minor themes, such as escape and rite of passage."

>Bantock not only appreciates the Book as a tangible and malleable Object, but also appreciates postcards and letters and envelopes and postage stamps as the same, and weaves the Objecthood of these items into the Objecthood of the Book with smooth panache. At an initial glance and an initial reading it is hard not to describe Bantock's Griffin & Sabine trilogy as "cute," and that cuteness holds out, but there is a depth and seriousness or at least expansive creativity to these books, which, even if they are not "high literature," makes "cute" seem too weak a designate...instead, I'd say that these books are a "delight."