我很喜歡《全知讀者視角》的原因之一是，它處理了很多我在閱讀作品時會很著迷的主題：
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它講的是有一位主角被寫進一段註定悲慘的故事，只為了讓那唯一的讀者活下去。
但它也講了主角的反抗。也是為了那位讀者，他拒絕被強加在自己身上的故事所控制。
它也講了主角的願望。即便讀者為他創造了另一段更為理想的故事，他仍選擇回到原先的故事之中。
最終它揭露的是，原來這段故事打從一開始就是主角的選擇。
（所以說，宿命、自由意志與選擇究竟是什麼？它們之間的模糊分界又該劃在何處？）
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它講的是有一位作家被捲進一段她並不滿意的故事。
它讓我們看見作家積極改寫她想要的版本，卻逐漸活進了故事裡。
它也讓我們看見作家的嫉妒。她不滿意的這段故事卻能得到一位讀者十年來不間斷的愛。
最終它揭曉的是作家的領悟，原來她必須親自書寫這段故事，藉此拯救那位讀者的生命。
（所以說，造物者與先知的界線何在？說故事與祈禱又有什麼不同？）
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它講的是有一位讀者由於深愛著某個故事，一度允許自己活下去。
它讓我們看見讀者的歉疚感。對他來說，唯一能承受被愛的方法，就是付出一切代價回報故事的恩情。
它也讓我們看見身為讀者既全知、卻又無能為力。他能想像一切情節，其中卻沒有自己的容身之所。
最終它告訴我們身為讀者原來如此寂寞。明明身為故事及其中萬物的「第一因」，卻不得不與他創造的世界永遠分離。
（所以說，神不就是我們無法忽視的那個缺席的位置？不就是即便徒然也不由自主想去填補那永恆空虛的渴望？）
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它講的是有一個故事誕生，只為了被那唯一的讀者所愛，藉此挽救他的性命。
但它也呈現了故事的無法自拔，愛上了自己唯一的讀者，最終將他吞噬。
它呈現了故事就是無時間的宇宙，唯有在被閱讀、被夢孕育、被體驗之後才得以被書寫；唯有在幾乎終結之前才得以誕生；結果總走在原因之前。
最終它告訴我們故事能創造世界、亦能毀滅世界，然而其本質卻仍是不可靠、永遠無法完整的存在。總有些事物我們無法以文字捕捉，而故事只能由人們書寫（過濾）、想像（過濾）、閱讀（過濾）才得以存在。
（但無論那讓我們感到多麼無力，書寫仍是重要的，因為或許有一天有人會讀到它；無論那讓我們感到自身多麼侷限與偏狹，閱讀仍然是重要的，因為或許有一天我們能遇見能一同閱讀的人。）
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它講的是愛能驅使我們重新書寫、重新閱讀、重新活過一遍又一遍的故事，哪怕挽救那一個人的機會多麼渺茫。
但它也讓我們看見，有些時候即便傾注再多的愛，我們依舊無法改變故事的某些部分。
然而我想，它真正要說的是，即便最後失敗了這次的人生也並非毫無意義。
因為愛始終都在，即使在悲劇之中。
（或許，尤其是在悲劇之中。）
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（這篇的原文寫於2026.03.09，也就是我完讀12本小說的一週後。最近想一起整理到這時才發現寫回中文比想像中還難？感到自己中文很差 T__T）
（終於完成後發現是4/1，也太巧了！韓秀英生日快樂！）
（原文放下面）
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ORV slaps because it touches many themes I enjoy tremendously as a reader:
It's about a MAIN CHARACTER being written in a cursed narrative so that one certain reader could live.
About the MAIN CHARACTER defying the narrative for the same reader.
And about the MAIN CHARACTER asking to be put back in the narrative even when the reader created a better one for him.
It's about how the narrative had always been the MAIN CHARACTER's choice in the first place.
(So what is even god vs free will and autonomy?)
It's about a WRITER being thrown into a narrative which, in her opinion, sucked.
About the WRITER actively rewriting the narrative from within but gradually living it.
And about the WRITER's envy because the narrative was devotedly loved by one reader.
It's about the WRITER's final epiphany that the narrative had to be penned by her as it was to save that one reader's life.
(So what is even god vs prophet; narrative vs prayer?)
It's about a READER loving a narrative so much that for a while he allowed himself to be saved.
About the READER finding every way to repay the debt because it was the only way he coped with being loved.
And about the READER being the most omniscient yet the most powerless and seeing no place for himself.
It's about the READER being the First Cause of the narrative and everyone in it yet had to cut himself out of the world he made.
(So what is even god vs the absence we feel and the empty space that would never be filled, but oh, how do we wish to?)
It's about a NARRATIVE being created with the sole purpose of being loved by one certain reader to save him.
About the NARRATIVE that couldn't help but love its only reader in return and ended up absorbing him.
And about the NARRATIVE only being written after being read and dreamed and then lived; only being born before its almost ending; effects coming before causes.
It's about the NARRATIVE being able to create and destroy worlds and yet, at its core, still being unreliable and not 100% because there were things we couldn't capture by words, and it was written/filtered and imagined/filtered and read/filtered by people.
(But it's still important to write however powerless it feels because someone might read it and still important to read however limited and biased it seems because someone might read it with you.)
It's about LOVE urging us to re/write and re/read and re/live narratives for how many times it needs to save even just one life.
About sometimes there will still be certain parts of the narrative that can't be altered, even with the amount of LOVE there was.
And it's about even when we fail, it will never be a wrong or meaningless life to have and always, LOVE has always been there, even in tragedies.
(Especially in tragedies.)
