How It All Goes Down
Falling in Love, 1934-1941
- This is another non-plot related chapter. We hear a bit about Safran's many conquests, then we get to read excerpts from The Book of Antecedents.
- More about this book in our Symbols section, but there are a few plot holes it fills in:
- We learn the details behind Brod's rape by Sofiowka (it's awful).
- We learn that Brod's third Yankel (the one conceived through the hole in the wall "begot Trachimkolker. Trachimkolker begot Safranbrod. Safranbrod begot Trachimyankel. Trachimyankel begot Kolkerbrod. [And] Kolkerbrod begot Safran" (24.108). What, Yankelbrod was taken?
- And we learn about 5 of Brod's 613 sadnesses.
- This chapter ends with the phrase "we are writing…" (24.115) repeated about 150 times. (Think Bart Simpson...only not so funny.)