- June 17th, 2025, 11:04 am
#475001
The sentence, "He had just been scheduled to ...meet with leaders of something called the |Anticipatipn Day Task Force, which was apparently creating some sort of New Simulation experience for citizens of United States." 1. At this point I think he must be #1 in the field to be brought in from another country, and I wondered how the USA could expect him to come on in such short notice without more information. It did make me curious and want to read on to find what the simulation was, as no clue was given.
This will seem a bit foolish, but I did and I didn't understand the following scene and sentence. Although it does speak to Joshua's character. He is in his hotel room with his wife, Julie and baby Owen, just after he has told her about the potentially life-changing call he received. She leaves for some reason -to give him space, perhaps, but the reader doesn't know until he thinks "The one good thing about Julie and the kids(? at this point I thought they just had 3-year-old Owen, but I must have been mistaken), leaving was having a huge hotel suite all to him self."1. He tabbed up an adult entertainment website, and eight minutes later, he was out like a light. (He has just been picked for some type of task force, he doesn't know what and hardly speaks with his wife about it, other than she will support him. So yes, I understand he self-satisfies and goes to sleep. But I can't understand why? Considering all his internal questions after receiving the call and his less-than-translucent understanding of what the Simulation meant, I thought the pair would have a long discussion. The marriage seemed like a prop, and I couldn't reconcile with finding out life-changing information, your wife going off, and the protagonist's behaviour. The way it was presented made no sense to me, and if I hadn't wanted to know what the simulation was, I would not have read on. So I understood what was happening in the scene and sentence as such, but not the reasoning behind it.
1. Michelson, Jeff. Anticipation Day (pp.13& 14). OJDM LLC. Kindle Edition.