This seems to suggest that humanity’s experience of reality is a construct of the mind, and that people can’t always trust what they see regardless of how real it feels. The last half of the story is an illusion, which eventually gives way to the ironic twist that Farquhar has, in fact, been hanged after all. Of course, that perception proves to be solely within the protagonist’s mind. But his journey is strange and surreal, reflecting both a series of hyper-intense observations about the world around him and details which suggest he might not even be on Earth anymore, but rather in some strange alternate dimension. In the moments before his death, Farquhar believes he is escaping from his Union captors-that the rope intended to hang him breaks-and that he takes a long and desperate journey home.
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