Angelinas Lips eBook

To be Hitchcockian about it, the story deals with the relationship between [Umberto] Umber, a professor of comparative literature, and a Dr. Jamshid Kloster, an experimental physicist whom Umber meets on a Laguna Beach bench as Diane Keaton, a long-time Laguna Beach resident, strolls by. Umbers other obsession or, perhaps, his deepest regret is that ... he will never be able to know any of the characters of future novels. In Hitchcockian terms, thats the McGuffin and as Kloster tells Umber, If youre interested in future novels, we must travel to the libraries of the future. And thats where the story becomes both Borgesian and Contesque as Umber asks Kloster what he will need for that to happen and Kloster replies: We need a library, four mirrors, and a beautiful sunset.{Mark Axelrod}