In the description of Ts’ui Pen’s ‘Garden’ I found it to be a beautiful thought in the same way that solving a really elegant proof is beautiful or piecing together a puzzle is beautiful. The nice thing about it is that while there are forking paths in the micro end of the ‘Garden’ there’s also the macro end that is a puzzle to uncover the word “time.” Equally great about the story is the fact that Yu Tsun’s being there is a puzzle to uncover the word “Albert.”
Applying thoughts on the reading to our first assignment in class, it seems like a good idea to include one or several ‘meta’ puzzles in the story I create.
