red wine for La Guillotine
Also, when I reread Holes earlier today, it occurred to me just how much of a formulative influence it was on me.

Because that book is full of tight parallels.

With the shoes, the onions, the peaches, Kate Barlow, Madame Zeroni, the Walkers, the lizards, the treasure, the song, and 90% of the entire book.

It’s all interwoven. Everything introduced fits into the story in some important way. Literally everything.

And it’s all incredibly improbable, but I absolutely love all of those parallels and connections.

In fact, they’re some of my favorite narrative devices.

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