This gives the reader precise information about the settings of various events, but at the same time, it’s kind of useless unless you pull yourself out of the story to Google it (as I did). In other places, we’re given exact coordinates of various sightings: S. There are many names, and each of these people have precise degrees and jobs and even full addresses (7 Thomas St., Providence, R.I) associated with them. At times, it was hard to remember the story was fiction instead of reading actual travel logs and notes by people. The level of detail provided is almost distracting. One might say it is written in a hyperrealist style. I was a little surprised by how real it was.
So these lines had full intention behind them to set up later parts of the story. Later we will get a scene set on infinite black seas. The main character has to piece together various found stories to get the full picture (i.e.
I had to look up a few words in the first pages, though some of these might have been more standard back when it was written (e.g. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. The first two sentences already indicate this is not your average pulp genre writing: The first thing to jump out at me was the dense prose style.
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