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Companions of the Day and Night
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ISBN13: 9780571296224
Publisher: Faber Finds
Published: Nov 15 2012
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He ascended eyes riveted nailed to the steps leading up to the top of the pyramid of the sun. How many human hearts he wondered had been plucked from bodies there to feed the dying light of the sun and create an obsession with royal sculptures echoing stone?... It was time to take stock of others as hollow bodies and shelters into which one fell...
In Companions of the Day and Night (first published in 1975) Wilson Harris revives figures from his earlier Black Marsden - chiefly Clive Goodrich the editor of this text who constructs a narrative from the papers of a figure known as Idiot Nameless: a wanderer between present and past taking an Easter sojourn in Mexico that lasts both for days and for centuries. The results have the strangely hypnotic power characteristic of Wilson Harriss fiction.
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