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>>16599919
Finished part 4. The jew's story. Or I guess he would be the scholar. I seriously thought his story was going to be boring, but then it ended up being the most emotional. I actually felt for his and his family's situation. There were a couple of emotional gut punches in his tale. Absolutely fascinating.

So more stuff about dreams have come up. But interestingly, this is the only chapter so far with a slight PoV shift.
Twice we get Rachel's perspective.(Sorry if I'm misspelling her name. Audiobook and all) The jew couldn't have known what happened to Rachel inside the Sphinx, and yet he gets a detailed account. That's part of the dream Rachel's mom had, and she never shared it in full with her husband. She only shared a bit of it. Enough to let the reader know that she knew what happened to Rachel. So while we are being told the story from the Father's perspective, we are getting the mother's perspective too. Also, in the mother's dream, the father is there with her. While in the Father's dream, he is alone. This suggests some kind of one-way connection. And it could account for how the father can tell events that he's never seen, without realizing that he's never seen it. Because he HAS seen it, but he doesn't know he's seen it.

I know that sounds crazy. But this whole story is crazy, and I'm just trying to make sense of it.

Anyway. I think the voice the jew calls god is actually his own voice from the future. Kind of a wild prediction, I know. Probably totally wrong. But I'm thinking this whole party will eventually enter the time tombs. Wherein, they will exist in all times at once through the medium of dreams. And the jew will reach out to himself and put himself on the journey to take Rachel to the time tombs.

The baby is important somehow. But I have no clue how. I guess she needs to reach a state where she regresses so far, that she's teatering on non-existence, and that will allow her to exist in all times through dreams. She's already like a walking time tomb herself.

So yeah, I'm still liking it. Wacky story. Hope it's leading somewhere nice. Pic semi-related.