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Article: Jasper's plot: inventing the mystery of Edwin Drood.(John Jasper)
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- Dickens Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Attack the story like a radiant suicide, utter the great NO to life without weakness; then you will see a magnificent cathedral, and your senses, vectors of unutterable derangement, will map out an integral delirium.
Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Contre le monde, contre la vie (1991)
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Lay Precentor of Cloisterham cathedral and opium addict, John Jasper's art is music, but he is also inventing a plot and writing a book about a murder that has not yet taken place. As a character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, he is writing a variorum version of the novel in which he appears, attempting to control its plot and define some of its ...