tiganeasca
Moderator
A bit overlong, but interesting nonetheless. I think the author hits the nail on the head--for this and for so many other works (Forster's Marabar Caves pop to mind immediately):
"Solutions are withheld not to thwart readers—or dangle them over undecidables—but to remind them where the burden of interpretation lies. Readers must provide their own aspirin, as Beckett put it, for headaches sustained at the cosmographer’s drafting table. We are not deciding the value of this or that symbol but the type of universe that they belong to and what light it sheds on our own."