Title: Like a circle in a spiral, a wheel within a wheel...
Product review: Often a Rashomon approach changes the facts with each telling. Witnesses to a car accident each report it differently. One says a blue car jumped the light and hit the white car. Another says the blue car had the light when it hit the white car...The magnificent thing about Pears's writing is how cleverly he handles the Rashomon approach. In each telling, the facts remain the same. There are new facts added, but the old facts remain constant. The changes are in the perceptions of what the facts mean and how they are interpreted. This is clever writing, indeed. Especially since each evolution in fact building and interpretation is radically different but non-contradictory to that before. It is fascinating to see how well he does this and is worth reading for this if nothing else.
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