>>But I find myself wondering what the drawing *means*... does the drawing >>represent a specific element of the book? Reading the review, some of the >>other illustrations appear to refer to specific incidents, but there's no >>mention of the fortune teller. Looked at one way, the drawing is of course a >>literal interpretation of the title - but I wonder if that's because it's an >>incident in the book (except you cannot actually fold a real clock, of >>course) or is it some other reference. Maybe it refers to the book's >>out-of-sequence diary structure: if you took a regular diary, and folded it >>up somehow, it's as if you're folding time...
I wonder if, by using the clock face and the fortune teller, you could get two times to link up by pressing them together :-) and be able to freely pass between those two times. Just musing on plot possibilities :-) Dennis
