Epiphany: a moment of sudden revelation or insight.
To me when i saw this word on page 291 very close to the end of the book I had my own sort of realization or revelation that brought order to this story of random facts and thoughts.
At the beginning of reading this book I was very close to throwing it in the trash and giving up barely twenty pages. I would have defiantly agreed with the amazon critics saying that this was a dull read filled with pointless facts. On page twenty there was a section that read "I have hardly mentioned Bole's personal life. His loves, hatreds etc. for these are what readers would look for skipping his speculations etc.. This is what a reader looks for to keep reading and so far there was a lack of it. But that is unfair of me to say for It was not until the end that I formed a completely different opinion.
Nanson had an obsession or obsessions, obsessed with facts and obsessed with a man that he did not quite understand fully and latter on finds out that his obsession is writing.
On page 98 and 99 Ibsen describe his process of obsession and how he creates a final work. Although Nanson would like to be a man who can dig as deep as Ibsen to find the facts, his own process is less successful but ultimately leads to his epiphany.
Another topic that fits into Nanson's epiphany was that of the romance of research. This phrase did not become clear until page 221 in the book. "So what did we talk about? She had become wholly engrossed in the problem of the marble connection. She would report minor triumphs -- and so on...." So was it the romance of research that Nanson made love to Vera after they found out what a few marbles names were or latter on when the research of Bees produced the same effect of Nanson and Fulla. NO
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