 Early in the process, he conceives of writing a novel which, it is clear, would be "Ægypt"; his ruminations on that novel describe the structure of the novel he is in.The distinctions between Crowley's, Moffett's, and Kraft's books are continually elided and the three books are finally undifferentiated.The novels generally have three main "strands" reflecting on three main characters, one occurring in the present day generally following Pierce or Rosie Mucho in their artistic works, and two occurring in the Renaissance following the fictionalized historical activities of John Dee, Edward Kelley and Giordano Bruno as written by Fellowes Kraft.