{"id":539,"date":"2019-12-10T18:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshwagner.xyz\/?p=539"},"modified":"2019-12-10T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T19:56:07","slug":"periphery-stowe-20th-anniversary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshwagner.xyz\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Periphery Stowe 20th-Anniversary Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Twenty years ago I decided to write a book about a world in which the book I was writing played a part. This \u201cbook-within-itself\u201d would tell its own story and be essential to its own plot. I wasn\u2019t sure what would happen from there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in India when I got the idea, and I ended up writing most of the first draft in Mumbai. When I got home, the first thing did was try to learn more about the country I\u2019d just spent six weeks wandering around in. At the time, I knew little to nothing about Hindu mythology, so I started there. Among my first discoveries were uncanny similarities between Periphery Stowe\u2019s story and the popular tales of Vishnu. Here was a god sleeping and dreaming the world. Within his dream he would manifest as another form\u2014the form of an \u201cavatar\u201d or hero destined to rescue reality from itself. These very same layers and loops occur inside the parallel and overlapping adventures of Periphery Stowe and Riggs Bombay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cover art by Freedom Drudge<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Had the narrative fabric of India somehow come up through the earth to wriggle into my subconscious? Had my desire to create a story which would so unabashedly fold in on itself somehow attracted a tangled connection between my life and the mythologies of my environment? Were these just the egotistical, mystified ravings of a foolish author?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Either way, it\u2019s been twenty years and I still hold Stowe\u2019s story and the story of its emergence dear to my heart. I hope the little fellow finds his way into yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twenty years ago I decided to write a book about a world in which the book I was writing played a part. This \u201cbook-within-itself\u201d would tell its own story and be essential to its own plot. I wasn\u2019t sure what would happen from there. I was in India when I got the idea, and I … <\/p>\n

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