City of Glass

Bri Fowle
When Quinn/Auster traced the routes of Stillman and it came out to be letters spelling out “owerofbab,” or “The Tower of Babel,” I thought it was very odd and kind of unlikely. How did Quinn/Auster think to trace the routes out? How can someone be that tirelessly thorough about a person? I was wondering how Stillman could not have noticed someone following him for weeks, until Quinn/Auster finally approached Stillman three different times, and he didn’t seem to recognize him at all any of the times. I thought it was interesting how we got so much information from those encounters about Stillman. I had suspected that Dark was made up or something by the way that no one had ever heard of him, and how all of these weird things happened to him. Only one of his children lived past infancy, and he ended up dying in a fall, and then his house and all but one of his pamphlets went up in flames and Stillman found the only copy left in existence. All of that put together sounded very unlikely. The fact that he presented his story that way makes me think that he was pretty much insane when he wrote it and it really only made sense to him. The notion that he is insane is very much influenced by the fact that he locked up his son in a completely dark room for 9 years, hoping that he would learn “God’s language.”