Havoc wrote:
Or does Tony Ray's viewpoint alter the reality of the whole world, as we see it?
Oh I ABSOLUTELY think it does!!! This story is so very much about someone's personal hell... And I
must believe that there is more to the world, that Tony Ray lives in, that actually allows others to be happy, people to find real love, and things to work out all right... It's all there,..because it's no doubt a complete world (at least in the writer’s mind)...
However,..that's not the SLOP Universe,..which is Tony Ray's personal universe, a small fractured portion of the whole... If he were truly allowed to live (and we were truly allowed to visit) in the rest of that other bright and shiny world it wouldn't be hell, would it?
Tony Ray has consigned himself to live only in the dark corners of that complete world... And, as a result, he lies to us, his observers, concerning the nature of the extent of his world...
He may be able to peer momentarily, from time to time, across that infernal shrubbery separating the two sides of Hades' Realm, catching a quick glimpse of beauty and happiness,...but that's merely a part of his torture.... If he chooses to share any of that with us,..it must always become a twisted parody...
Jadúgara ^_^