Astounding. I shouldn't be surprised, given who authored this tale. So much here calls to be read and re-read over again. I'm not certain I have the courage so to do, not because the story is somehow fragile and might not "survive" the retelling, but because there is a perfection in the first encounter with certain texts. Besides, if I come back to these "pages," I'm not sure I will be the same person, much as one never steps into the same River twice. Indeed, I will have been changed by my first reading. "Astounding is indeed the word that comes to mind. Thanks @D.K. Daniels.