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Nicholas Martinez
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It's distracting how even the prose diminishes Jude's importance by exclusively referring to him by pronoun--never by name, even when it's awkward or outright grammatically incorrect.
And there is a sort of eeriness how each major section of Jude's story has so far been bisected by a first-person account by someone other than Jude. Are these people fracturing him or keeping him together?
— Jul 31, 2025 09:28PM
And there is a sort of eeriness how each major section of Jude's story has so far been bisected by a first-person account by someone other than Jude. Are these people fracturing him or keeping him together?
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Nicholas Martinez
is on page 227 of 720
Jude is so far outside of conventional life that he's never properly featured as the main character. We find him in the corner of his social circle, where he is characterized in frames dominated by the bigger, more energetic personalities around him. It feels as though even the story would prefer to ignore him and that he could be left behind at any given moment.
— Jul 22, 2025 01:51PM
