I outdid myself reading McLaren - needed to retreat to the follow up trilogy by Robin Hobb. Oh the joys of a trilogy following a trilogy. Currently on book 2 of the Tawny Man Trilogy - which is really book 5 of the Farseer trilogy - and who should walk onto the pages but the characters out of the Liveship series by Robin Hobb!!! Slightly faded in my memory, but carrying the glow of another series well written and read - they are in a room with these new characters!
An assult to the senses? Its like seeing a close friend from the past having tea with close friends from now and feeling in a time warp! Authors can do that! Life can too...
How do we put our sequential life together. We live analog but our brain is digital - sorting memories where it will. Clustering not in a time sequence but with other logic. So a scene we view suddenly brings back painful - or beautiful - or familiar feelings from a past time - now. And we reel a bit trying to make sense of the mix.
A grandchild becomes for an instant the child who then bore them.... your mother becomes for an instant your grandmother - her mother.... your father becomes you for a whish as you look in the mirror with tired eyes and see his just before he died.
How does a book of fiction so capture our minds and imagination amidst our own realities and imaginings?
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