"Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was—into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets—to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye. It usually took strangers awhile to notice him even when they were in the same room with him. It took them even longer to notice that he never spoke. Some never noticed at all.
Estha occupied very little space in the world." (17)
The description of Estha's "noticeable quietening" and self confinement evoked via image of lungfish leads to a boxy paragraph that closes in upon the reader as a prison of insignificance where Estha prefects his ability to blend in "invisible to the untrained eye." The lungfish is significant because it alters its body composition in order to breath air when it environment drys out. If that boxy paragraph is a prison than paragraph/sentence following is a prison sentence.
I have to say. This book so far is just the right amount of Avant-garde for me. The details are not overpowering and seemingly purposeful.
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