How It All Goes Down
Recurrent Secrets, 1791-1943
- This is more of a thematic chapter, in which we're not sure what is real and what is fiction. (Okay, you could say that about the whole book, but this chapter is especially dreamlike.)
- Yankel starts covering the house in black sheets and reading Brod's diary, while Brod looks through a telescope that seems to see the future.
- It's a future Trachimbrod, and two children are reading The Book of Antecedents in 1943.
- One of the chapters is "The First Rape of Brod D" (12.15), which is unpleasant foreshadowing of the worst kind.