Arcadia
A Time Travel, Historical, Science Fiction book. Generally speaking, our minds impose an entirely artificial order on the world. It is...
Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 596 pages
- ISBN: 9780571301553 / 0
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It is a machine which I invented, designed and built. It is a way of gaining access to a variety of realities. As I say, at the moment it leads to a world created from Henrys imagination. Does he know? No, and Id prefer it if you didnt tell him. He might be offended. What do you mean by variety of realities? It means that for any given state of the universe, there are an infinite number of other possibilities. For example, we came to this restaurant and you ordered chicken. You could have ordered fish. A universe where you did order fish is a viable... Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. 'A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,' was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessie, a woman of many cliches. Iain Pears, Arcadia // although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In Iain Pears, Arcadia //
Description: Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question the... It was the teenager rather than the adult in me that enjoyed this. Arcadia is a novel brimming with mischief, a kind of YA romp featuring stories within stories, time travel and alternative universes. As I understood it, the novel is like a dramatised archaeological dig in search of the beginning and the end of its own story. Its not... This is the kind of book that makes you wish you could crawl into it and live there.
