Correspondence about A Deeper Sea between the author and another writer

Posted By: Anna Dyckow , on Tuesday, 12 June 2007

Hi Yvonne I finished "A Deeper Sea" Last week. Only a very fine writer could attempt such a storyline and get away with it. I'm sure I would gain more from a second read. The best books are like this: you finish and almost want to read it again to see what more insight you could gain. It would be a geat book for a book club to tackle. I thought your previous book Red Dragon Square was an exodus story. I was wrong; you told me. Is this book a version of the Moses story? I see a lot of parallels between Hano and Moses and the theme of the exodus story. Off? Even if I am, it was the most interesting read I've had in years. Shawn Hi Shawn, Many artists in many fields say that they don't know where their ideas come from. I agree. I sit down to write a chapter of a nvel, not knowing what I am going to have when I finish, but confident enough that whatever thurns up will move the story forward to a climax that I think I know, vaguely, but will not insist upon if the writing says no. So I don't know what A Deeper Sea means any more than you do. To you, Hano may well be a Moses figure. If so, you're right. Follow that line. It may lead to deeper insights into a lot of things, for you. To me - I think - Hano represents the power of the mind we never use. We are told that we use perhaps only 10% of our mental potential. Hano is not extraordinary, but perhaps he uses more of his mind thean most of us. The so-called miracles resulted from that. The most obvious Moses parallel came out of thin air. When Hano said to Chayleste that he was going to look for a burning bush, I was completely taken by surprise, even after his thought about taking off his shoes becuase he was on holy ground. Yvonne Hi Yvonne, I say an exodus sotry from seeing Hano lead his troop out of jail (Moses leading his people out of Egypt), the visions (people, the Centurions, etc.), and then suffering with his people in jail (the years wandering in the desert). Even manna seems to come from nowhere (the fire melon) to sustain them. They suffer(some die) and they show great patience until Hano can lead them out (which is one of the moral lessons of the exodus story). There are some parallels I think even if not intended. Shawn Shawn Jennings, MD is the author of two books: Locked In Locked Out (non-fiction) the story of his brainstem stroke, and The Dove's Eye, his first novel: a boy comes to terms with his father's murder. (Dove's Eye is a Triity ebook)

 

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