If on a winter's night a traveler

Let me start by saying I absolutiely adored the frame of this story. Unabashedly. The biggest mark against it was that the prose is, at times, pretty dense. Not all of the stories are great, but some of them are. I liked the absurd bits. The conclusion was pretty good, but I'm not sure it really tied everything up. It's... definitely an interesting read. Not for everyone, but at least give it a bit of a shot.