So now I will post in response to my baffled and irritated reader a sort of Key to the reading of
Endless Things, though for all I know it explains nothing, and merely reiterates the disappointing puzzlements in a different way, but anyway non-readers or rather intended readers of ET might want to skip this too, unless they want to find out What This Writer was Trying to Say and then read the book and find out if I said it.
crowleycrow
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I always assumed there were bits (only bits, but significant ones) of John Crowley in Fellowes Kraft and Pierce Moffett (as I had to point out to friend Ed Wilson that his Kentucky experience was simply parallel to your own, albeit uncannily so). And this was why I began to fear, seven or so years ago, that the novel being ambiguously attributed to both might have been set up to terminate in a deliberately unfinished sequence. (By the way, brilliant explanation in Endless Things of why previously published chapters carried the Bruno story beyond the point at which Moffett finds that Kraft's manuscript ends.) I never would have guessed Rosie Rasmussen as a major parallel figure,