With ‘the Prisoner’ is it possible to
square the circle? Certainly the series in its ending, is it’s beginning.
A vicious circle as far as the Prisoner himself is concerned. ‘The Prisoner’ is
not constructed as a tightly consistent serial, but from a number of
independent episodes, which apart from ‘A B and C’ and ‘The General,’ ‘The
Chimes of Big Ben,’ ‘Once Upon A Time,’ and ‘Fall Out’ can be generally said to
have no relationship with each other. Indeed, as far as ‘Many Happy Returns’ is
concerned, this episode actually resets
the Prisoner back to square one, the episode being as circular as the whole
series itself.
Be seeing you
That whole piece is one ungrammatical load of self-contradiction.
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