I've got 5 minutes to write the plot of a great novel.
We're gonna go with the working title of Book Guy for now.
Story about a guy. He has a near death experience involving a cliff and the personal assistant of some very important person who he met while traveling in foreign lands. He survives the near-death experience but the assistant perishes BUT not before telling him some deep dark secret about the previously aforementioned very important person. Our main guy is troubled by this and to resolve this conflict he writes a short story about the juicy deets and publishes it anonymously to the internet or something. Story blows up and attracts a lot of attention but then the guy gets paranoid because he suspects that the very important person is trying to take him out because he's gotten too close to the truth.
I've got one minute left.
The second half of the story is him wrestling with the question of whether or not he's been followed and he can't disambiguate plausible accidents between assassination attempts--
ran out of time--
He becomes a shut-in and a recluse and meditates on how knowledge is a kind of violence--capital K knowledge is the language of institutions which exist to concentrate and legitimize power and then---and then
and then there's also this thread that's been woven in throughout about classical faeries and the fae who represent the power of the unknown and the mysterious and ineffable and in the end the guy is rotting in the woods and it's unclear if he retreated to the wilderness and died from exposure or if he was killed but in any case he's being devoured slowly by mushrooms and this...
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