FWIW, I like the more elliptical version. I thought it was fairly transparent iff you read the chapters relatively quickly (much more so than the release schedule) -- there are references to his father in earlier chapters.
It wasn’t a matter of I forgot about his father (although no, I wasn’t thinking about it at that particular time). It was that I didn’t even perceive it as a sentence that needed completing.
FWIW, I like the more elliptical version. I thought it was fairly transparent iff you read the chapters relatively quickly (much more so than the release schedule) -- there are references to his father in earlier chapters.
It wasn’t a matter of I forgot about his father (although no, I wasn’t thinking about it at that particular time). It was that I didn’t even perceive it as a sentence that needed completing.