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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Anslem is the name of one of Jake's books. He wrote it while being possessed by that demon in one episode, and it has some cool cover in "The Visitor" where Jake grows up after his dad is trapped in Subspace.

Well, I was walking in the place I worked when I came by the office of a person whose first name is Anslem. So I got thinking: Who or What is Anslem? And anyone have an idea what that book is about?

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Having just watched "The Visitor", I can tell you it's at least semi-biographical.

Perhaps Jake thinks of himself as Anslem?

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Semi-autobiographical. A small but important distinction.

My guess is it's a coming of age story, probably about a boy similar to Jake growing up under similar conditions; deceased parent...raised in a distant alien environment, etc. Similar in tone to The Catcher in the Rye, perhaps? (I say that because Cirroc Lofton has named that as a favorite of his, and he's at least partially Jake, no?)

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Ahh, yes. That's what I meant, though.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Ansulom, or Assulom or something like that, is Abraham's son in the Bible. Ansalom??

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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Kosh: it's Absalom.

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Posted by jh on :

Actually Absalom is one of David's sons who ends up threatening the existence of David's kingship and the kingdom of Israel through sexual machinations. The story revolves around a brother and sister too, I think, and is the referential story in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!"

As far as Anslem goes, I don't think it would be very "Catcher"-esque. Seems like Jake's psyche is a little more secure and positive than that. Based on the opening line I would guess that it is semi-autobiographical and probably very spiritual, connected with the prophets, etc. And a decent guess would be the main character embroiled in a much larger galactic battle (or war, perhaps?). For some reason I imagine it as being about the new emerging nature of the races of the galaxy after a long conflict, full of hope and pain, etc.

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

If the semi-autobiographical thing is true, then someone explain to me how Jake came up with the story in "The Muse", which, of course, doesn't take place in the same timeline as "The Visitor".

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Jake is a prodigy like Wesley, perhaps?

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Posted by jh on :

Well, the Muse did say that the words were there inside of him. Perhaps see let him see his own future, even if he didn't realize it. And he didn't finish it, maybe he had to wait until he had lived more. But what I really meant was that the main character would be more like Jake than Holden Caufield and that he would draw on his dad's existence as a religious figure to touch on themes of spirituality and consciousness.

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