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Highly enjoyable. Smith writes with a lot energy and humour and an inventive language. The topic is layered, fascinating and thought-provoking. I always love finding that a historical novel (or is this already historiographic metafiction? Whatever, theoretical mumbojumbo) tells me something, makes me think about the world I live in right now. How difficult it is to really know other people, how blurry the lines between truth and fiction, fraud and honesty. Sadly, my favourite side character of the Tichborne saga, Truth Butts (impossible not to always say and write his full name), did not make an appearance. But one has the corresponding episode of The Dollop to listen to for that. "'Time!' The noun itself appeared to disgust him. 'Why should I wait for what is mine by sacred right? Who can give to me what was never theirs to possess?` 'I really can't think what you mean.' 'Mrs Touchet, my freedom is as fully my inheritance as it is any man's. It has no time, I need not wait for it, it was mine from the moment of my birth. Does it surprise you to hear me say so?' 'Well for one thing you speak as if my freedom is perfect.' 'I know it is not. And where freedom is concerned, Mrs Touchet, I would advise you not to wait for others to present a false gift of it to you. You will be waiting a long time. Better to "take up arms against a sea of trouble, and by opposing, end them"'
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Highly enjoyable. Smith writes with a lot energy and humour and an inventive language. The topic is layered, fascinating and thought-provoking. I always love finding that a historical novel (or is this already historiographic metafiction? Whatever, theoretical mumbojumbo) tells me something, makes me think about the world I live in right now. How difficult it is to really know other people, how blurry the lines between truth and fiction, fraud and honesty. Sadly, my favourite side character of the Tichborne saga, Truth Butts (impossible not to always say and write his full name), did not make an appearance. But one has the corresponding episode of The Dollop to listen to for that. "'Time!' The noun itself appeared to disgust him. 'Why should I wait for what is mine by sacred right? Who can give to me what was never theirs to possess?` 'I really can't think what you mean.' 'Mrs Touchet, my freedom is as fully my inheritance as it is any man's. It has no time, I need not wait for it, it was mine from the moment of my birth. Does it surprise you to hear me say so?' 'Well for one thing you speak as if my freedom is perfect.' 'I know it is not. And where freedom is concerned, Mrs Touchet, I would advise you not to wait for others to present a false gift of it to you. You will be waiting a long time. Better to "take up arms against a sea of trouble, and by opposing, end them"'