Pareidolia: Deleted Chapter (Holcomb’s Interview)

Enjoy this deleted chapter from my first novel, Pareidolia. The premise is available here, and the table of contents can be found here.


Here we find Zeke and Marcus discussing the astrophysics conference that Zeke lately attended (outlined in this deleted chapter), and Marcus shows Zeke a taped TV show episode that he suspects must contain an anonymous interview with Kenneth Holcomb.

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Pareidolia: Deleted Chapter (Van Zorn’s Interview)

Enjoy this deleted chapter from my first novel, Pareidolia. The premise is available here, and the table of contents can be found here.


This chapter was written to flesh out the Ford Van Zorn character and explore some of the stranger philosophical and scientific themes introduced early on in the book.

I wound up deleting the chapter because Ford Van Zorn later evolved into a character who was, shall we say, less thoughtful than the person interviewed below. Also he was originally written as Dutch, and later changed to a charlatan masquerading as a Dutchman.

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Mulholland Drive & Infinite Jest: Not Making It Easy For You

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(There are no spoilers in this review.)

So I finally broke down and purchased a copy of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. My love of Tom McCarthy’s Remainder prompted me to scour the internet for “mind bending literature,” the results of which invariably pointed me in one direction.

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