I have been reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany" in a focused manner for the last week or so (I am a purposely slow reader), and I have reached the end of the chapter entitled "The Dream", in which a story is slowly crawling into focus. I have really enjoyed this book. It reminds me of both "The World According to Garp", as well as the likes of "Lunar Park", by Brett Easton Ellis - there is a darkness unfolding upon the world.
It reminds me, in both mirrored and inverted senses, of the episode of the X-Files entitled, "Sein Und Zeit" ("Being and Time"), named after Martin Heidegger's philosophical treatise. I suppose to be accurate, I have to point out that the X-Files episode was only part one. Part two, "Closure", actually possesses the most powerful moments of the pair, although it is wrong, I suppose, to talk about either episode without the other; they make two segments of one statement. In all the years of the X-Files - a show that played second-to-none, before or since, in its ability to bring not only supernatural matters but spiritual matters to the human level - this statement was always one of my favorites.
I don't believe I would "ruin" the episode for anyone - even if a thousand people read this. If you liked the X-Files, you would have seen this episode. But that is not the point. Selfish or deluded, I simply won't say more about it.
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