Black Heart Cherry
Quote from "AngelsDanceUpwards" April 2, 2004
p. 1
Department of Game and Resources
p. 2
Lux Nova
social functions in New York
summers in Nantucket
p. 3
Chanterelles, Amanitas
p. 5
satellite, gravity, orbit allusions
"22 miles north of the city"
p. 6
Townsand Banks, only son of commercial construction giant
"understood the end game"
nickname "T"
p. 7
farmboys are cunningly observant like foxes
the game of the big town
the big game goes down
p. 9
her number on the back of a matchbook (T's mom)
bathroom, women's loo, restroom (why 3 different nouns for the same place on the same page?)
Les
p. 10
twentyone or twentytwo gray marble treads to the top with one landing in between
p. 11
THERE IS NO PAGE 11?!
p. 12
Ms. Mary, twenty years, $5.50 / hour
p. 13
"Smith" girl, Mary saw what the narrator could not
10 years later, Diane Smith, "searching the past"
I am under the impression that the entire puzzle is made up of allusions. Find all of the text allusions and then they will lead you to the key.
For now, it looks like there is one main allusion and one red herring in every chapter. Not sure how they'll piece together, though....
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn."
-- Alvin Toffler
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