duanesm

I just finished Braid as well and did a Google search on the epilogue...this thread was the main link.

WOW.  I knew the game was amazing, but i never expected to see so many conversations about post-modern interpretations in a game forum.

So many great ideas, but there is a name in the credits that many folks are missing:  Italo Calvino.

An amazing writer who played with the very notions of time and space, the relationship between author/reader, etc.  I would recommend reading his novel IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, which tells the story of YOU the reader and your relationship to a novel that consistently changes tone, style, and more.  After seeing his name in the credits, I'm pretty convinced that Blow is a fan of this book--especially in that Tim can be viewed as a cypher for you, the player. 

Also, I don't know if it means anything, but another post-modern writer, Renaldo Arenas, in his book FAREWELL TO THE SEA, had major messages brought to the characters by dinosaurs... for what it is worth.  :)