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[moonsheen]

My Grandfather wrote a book called The Parallax View. All my life I'd heard about it, and a lot of my grandfather's other plays and novels, but this one always came up the most. It's a political thriller, centered around the Kennedy assassinations, and I'd known distantly that it had a bit of a cult following, as every so often fans of the book would track my grandfather down to ask him about it. He mostly took this with annoyance, as my grandfather was always a very private man who liked to keep his own counsel, and never coddled anyone who wasn't, well, a dog or a grandchild. These were the two beings in his life he would be very warm to. Still, I respected his privacy and never asked about the book. I didn't think much about the book, until one day I stumbled across a review of.... one of those big name action flicks? The Interpreter, I think it was, with Nicole Kidman. And in the review it said 'In the tradition of The Parallax View. and so for the first time I looked into my grandfather's book. Apparently they made a movie of it. Apparently it had Warren Beatty in it and it's considered yeah, a cult classic. And apparently my grandfather's name was quite known from his era. He was a talented writer, a deeply intelligent man and I'd always hoped that I'd figure out how to get published while he was alive, so I could dedicate my first novel to him, because everyone in the family always told me I got it from him, and from everyone in the family he was the only one who truly believed that I could really do it.

...and I waited too long. I don't really know what else to say about it. It hasn't quite sunk in.