Our tragic universe
av Scarlett Thomas (forfatter).
Canongate 2011 Heftet
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Meg føler seg fanget i en labyrint. Hun befinner seg i et dødt forhold, hun klarer ikke å fullføre romanen hun jobber med og boken hun skal anmelde forsøker å overbevise henne om at alle lever evig. Et vilt udyr som bor i Dartmoor, et flaskeskip, vitenskap om tid, et strikkemønster og alvene i Cottingly spiller alle en rolle når Meg skal bryte ut av labyrinten.
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If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. For Meg - locked in a hopeless relationship and creatively uninspired - this thought fills her with dread. But could there be an important connection to be made between a wild beast living on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time, a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe and the Cottingley fairies? And could a story offer a way through her own personal labyrinth?
Bokdetaljer
Forlag Canongate
Utgivelsesår 2011
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9781847679314
EAN 9781847679314
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
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Living forever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of divorce.
TnKnutsen siterer Our tragic universe av Scarlett Thomas (side 7)
14:59, 10. oktober 2010 2 har det som favoritt.
Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.
Rebecca Holck siterer Our tragic universe av Scarlett Thomas (side 51)
18:40, 16. mai 2011 2 har det som favoritt.
There’s a group of fishermen on a tropical island. Every day they get up when they feel like it, go out on their boats and catch enough fish for themselves and their families, and perhaps for anyone they know who is ill and can’t make it out that day. They all have gardens where they grow everything else they need. When they are done fishing, they play with their children, or have a game of cards, or read books in the sunshine. Every night they eat their fish and then go around to one another’s houses and tell stories or have parties. One day, an American comes for a holiday on the island - they don’t get many tourists there, but the location has just featured in some book of “unspoilt destinations” or something like that. He looks at the way they live, and then says to one of the men, who has taken him out on a fishing trip, “You know, you’re missing out on all kinds of opportunities here. If you organised yourselves into a company, you could spend more time fishing, and export the surplus that you don’t need to live on, and you could build bigger houses and have your own swimming pools and trust funds for your kids and you could get yourself some proper clothes and travel the world. Soon you wouldn’t need to fish for yourselves; you could employ other people to do it. Eventually - imagine this - you could retire with a million in the bank and then…” “Then,” finished the fisherman, “I suppose I could afford to go on a holiday like yours, and find true peace and harmony by simply fishing in the sunshine.”
Mari Nordø Lommelun siterer Our tragic universe av Scarlett Thomas (side 62)
10:16, 24. februar 2011 1 har det som favoritt.
What was wrong with sitting around eating pizza if it made you happy and you didn't hurt anyone? Why was this worse than, say, slaying a dragon or rescuing a maiden? The idea of a thousand years of adventure just made me feel tired.
Sirin siterer Our tragic universe av Scarlett Thomas
23:37, 23. juni 2011 Ingen har det som favoritt.
'This, for me, is a key feature of storylessness: all structures must contain the possibility of their own non-existence -- some zip that undoes them.' She smiled. 'The storyless story is a vagina with teeth.'
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