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All at SeaActs 27.1-12
In John Fowles’ novel, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, the reader getting near the end receives a shock. There are two endings. You can choose. Would you like the story to finish like this, or like that? What are you saying about yourself, or about the book, if you go this way or that way? This is a classic postmodern move, turning the tables as it were on the reader who has been basking in the safety of the observer, the bird’s-eye view from which, though you are involved, of course – otherwise you wouldn’t have read this far – you can pretend to be detached. No, says the author, admit it, you are involved, and now you have to choose. You thought you were looking through a window, but suddenly it turns into a mirror...
Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 2 by Tom Wright