Gibbous-ly Interactive

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Gibbous-ly Interactive

To those of you who have read parts of Gibbous House, I have a favour to ask. Some 28,000 words in and - in all probability - with another 100,000 to go, the byzantine bubbles in my brain concern the resolution of the plot. However, there is a dilemma, the way I envisage the tale unfolding points to the demise of the soi-disant Alasdair Moffat at the end. Some might say he should get his just desserts, and they might be right. On the other hand, despite his woeful anti-semitism (in a man who married a jewish woman!), his unmitigated amorality, his hyper-inflated ego, his pomposity and his 'chippiness', I can't help harbouring a sneaking admiration for him.

So, for the sake of interactive argument, I abrogate my responsibility and ask anyone interested, how would you vote?

(Votes cast after the author has finally made his mind up will not count, although your intellectual capital will have been debited with the cost of your consideration of the answer.)

I vote for an ambiguous ending - he may be dead - but he may not be - so that he can come back for another book! He's magnificently evil.
I vote for Moffat's cunning avoidance of just desserts as though I am horrified at his amorality (he just killed a shepherd with a rock blow to the head)...as I have said before - I do quite like him too.

 

He shoud really get what's coming to him ...but then again. An ambiguous ending would drive me mad... but in this instance I think it might just be called for, much as I would like to see him on a boat bound for Outer Mongolia with the captain's head neatly tucked under his arm, I suppose ambiguity gets my vote too. Got loads of catching up to do on it, but using boyfriend's lappy today because my assistant (I'm blaming him anyway) has blown mine up spectacularly.

 

I haven't read all of Gibbous House but I understand how anti-semitism can be a tricky issue to tackle. Amis senior seemed to get away with it. His son seems to be constantly making apologies. It's not something that will ever be resolved to everybody's satisfaction so I vote for ambiguity.
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