6/30

Language has become very prevalent in this novel now. It seems that Quinn is more interested in Stillmans writing than the actual case in some aspects. Although it really makes perfect sense considering how Quinn is in fact a writer himself. My issue with it is that I am having a hard time trying to decide how this long drawn out discovery is important to the rest of the story. I understand that it has importance to see where Stillman was coming from (to an extent) to lock his son up for nine years, but it seems very drug out, as if there is a strong importance. Except, of course, for the fact that 1960 was the year that Stillman locked up his son, and it was the same year as the new Babel.
Also I find it interesting that Quinn discusses how when he is pretending to be Paul Auster it makes him so much freer, and he does not have to worry about his normal stressors. This is silly to me because Quinn has already made up other characters; I’m not sure why it takes this one to actually pull him out of his funk. My only true guess is maybe because Auster is in fact a real person to his knowledge, and he already had a reputation that he needs to uphold. Which is a similarity to Chinatown, in the fact that there is identity fraud, which is a new issue that had not been in The Big Sleep nor Brick.