I liked this better than JS&MN, the pacing was much better. Obviously in conversation with Plato, Borges, etc, does anyone else think it’s also in conversation with The Secret History?

Characters suitably deranged, setting nuts, etc. Both this and JS&MN are thinking a lot about giving information to/keeping it from the reader: JS&MN has the infamous footnotes, which I loved, and this is from the POV of someone who at first knows nothing at all. For periods of the book the reader knows more than he does.