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Pretentious. Overblown. Empty. I just don’t understand how so many people found the writing and the story to be meaningful. I thought that the observations of an obviously mentally ill patient did not seem beautiful and magical. They were just basically his hallucinations�� the underground horses, the little men in the wall. Give me a break. The story of “the lady�� and “the priest�� was somewhat interesting, but that story was diluted by too many other minor plot lines. And I can’t see why those 2 characters had to remain nameless. That seems , also, like some attempt at being mysterious, magical, or literary. Yes, this prison was a horrible place to be. SO, why call it an enchanted place? Is that the narrator’s hallucination, too? I suppose so, but that doesn’t make it meaningful.