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'Coy', yes Sara, that's a good word for Six-Thirty. Like you, I found Lessons unsatisfactory, in part because I am not a fan of the 'prologue' set up - a scene in the present followed by a long journey into the past to bring us back to that first encounter with the protagonist. There were a few too many detours along the way (symptom perhaps of the 'written by committee' effect), for example, the rowing, but maybe that was just me - I felt cold and tired just reading those passages!

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Good point Robert. Yes I think a short interlude or aside from the 'animal' perspective - or plant why not? - is a salutary reminder to us that there is another way to look at the world. Certainly, although not written from the perspective of trees, Richard Powers' The Overstory gave me a new insight into trees and their capacity to communicate.

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