Ah, I see. Hm. I'm not really sure where exactly my strength lies. I used to think my main area of expertise was black comedy, but when I write that it ends up being too black for most people to even see the comedy - my first story on this site, The Rocket Case, being a case in point. I'm not sure that anyone noticed that that was more or less one long, extended joke.
Now, I'm not so sure. Practice has given me a certain degree of competence in the field of comedy, but the darkness keeps creeping back in - whether it's having thousands of people molecularly dissassembled while still alive and rebuilt into the new incarnation of Groudon, or accidentally turning what was meant to be the reliable narrator of my story about Genesect into a Pale Fire-style lunatic who probably committed multiple murders during the course of the story.
Hm. This had some relevance to your point when I first thought of it... Ah yes. Things generally come out all right in the end, in my experience - and from what I've read of your work beyond Havisham and The Promise I Made to You (which is admittedly not much), it seems like that holds true for you. The Mizan flavour is there, but it's still a credible departure from your usual style.
Yeah. I think that's what I meant to say... Man, I'm really bad at following my own thoughts.
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