Notes and Misconceptions
Calling it anti-Calvinist is too narrow. Its deeper target is the human talent for turning belief into permission.
The split structure makes the reader judge competing evidence instead of handing over a clean answer.
Best Path
Gothic, unreliable narration, doubles
Reading Paths
Unreliable Selves
Narrators and protagonists who turn memory, faith, desire, illness, and charm into evasive machinery.
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