The four lexia that I picked to analyze were Lolly’s Monologue, 1/, 2/, and exploding. To get from Lolly’s Monologue to 1/ I clicked on the word "accident". Lolly’s Monologue is discussing the accident that the story begins with, discussing how it came about. The word accident doesn’t seem to really have any relation to the title of the lexia, 1/, but it does have a large relation to the content of the lexia. 1/ details exactly what took place, or at least what Lolly thought took place. From that lexia, I clicked on the word "truth". This brought me to 2/, which discusses the history of some of the characters, as chronicled by Lolly. Again, the word which brings you to 2/ doesn’t have anything to do with 2/, but the content of 2/ has everything to do with the word which brought you to the lexia. 2/ is talking about the truth behind what Peter and Wert know. Moving on from 2/, I clicked on the word "entropy". Clicking on entropy led me to the lexia titled "exploding", which contained the single word "exploding". Here, there is an interesting link between the word and the lexia. Entropy has a secondary meaning of a measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system. An explosion can be very disorderly and very random, and it’s interesting that the word entropy would link to a lexia titled explosion.
Lolly’s monologue
I decided to begin with the page titled "Lolly’s monologue." This lexia almost seems to be a beginning to an end, a starting place to summarize the accident. Prior to getting to this lexia, I had clicked through several lexia’s being narrated by Nausicaa, who was one of Peter’s lovers. However, at Lolly’s Monologue, we see a shift from narration by Nausicaa to narration by Lolly. Lolly is telling of her interpretation of Nausicaa’s words, breaking down what she said about the accident. As a lexia, this relates to most of "Afternoon, a story". When you begin the story, you come across some discussion of an accident, possibly involving the ex-wife and son of the narrator, Peter. Lolly’s monologue analyzes what Peter’s lover said about the accident.
1/
In this lexia, we continue to see Lolly narrate. She is analyzing the accident, trying to come up with a reason as to why it happened. Again, this relates back to the beginning of the story with the discussion of the accident. Also, this lexia ties in several different characters of the story, namely Peter, Wert, and Lisa. In that way, it relates back to the previous lexia, but also to lexia throughout the story.
2/
2/ is really about history. It is about stating facts about Wert and Peter, and facts of life. There are two lines in this lexia that read "There are forces which we can call evil." "There are powers which we can call good." With these two lines, this lexia is basically saying that throughout the story you come across good and evil powers and forces, and that they are what drive life and the story.
Exploding
This is an interesting lexia because it so subtly relates to the previous lexia and to the entire story. The previous lexia were discussing the accident, discussing the relations between Peter and Wert and Lisa, and analyzing what Nausicaa had to say. In a way, the previous lexia were discussing an explosion between the lives of several individuals. They were discussing several different lives coming together at one exact moment, an explosion. Similarly, the accident could be looked at as an explosion between two automobiles. So, it’s interesting that the previous lexia led to a page with one word, explosion, on it.
The overall theme of these Lexia seem to be about the accident and what caused the accident. All of them, with the possibly exception of “exploding”, seem to be narrated by Lolly. These specific lexia almost give an answer as to what happened in the accident, but it’s only part of the answer. As seems to be the case throughout “Afternoon, a story” you are given a small piece of the puzzle but must continue to read on to fill in the rest of the puzzle.