This book is all about language and meaning. Indeed, it could be argued that because so many conventional aspects of a novel have been stripped away from this book, all that remains is language. The very act of reducing character, plot, dialogue, and psychological motivations to near-nonexistence virtually ensures that the language itself will be hard to understand. Much of the writing in this book seems incomprehensible, especially at first, before the reader begins to notice repetitions of words and themes that give clues to emerging meaning.