Story needs to be retold as first person to give it that immediacy, and so we aren’t pulling the wool over the reader’s eyes. Make it that Yakov’s madness didn’t start until they were very close to the Matryoshka.Īt the end of the story, we find that it isn’t Dimitri who’s escaped, it’s his doctor, who’s gone off the rails so completely that he’s started thinking he was one of the crew. In fact, it seems to be spreading-just being in contact with the survivors of the mission seems to be having an un-hinging effect. All along there are clues to the fact that any one who came into contact with the Machine ends up a little insane. Dimitri knows that something bad is going to happen to him, but he’s resigned to it-almost happy, knowing that he has let Petrova know she was right. They talk about what she did in the past, how she was rdiculed. You want to see some notes? Here are some notes.
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