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The Test

The Test

Fraser, John

Hardcover

Science FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1914938089
ISBN13: 9781914938085
Publisher: Aesop Publications
Published: Dec 1 2022
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Two new tales from John Fraser.

These two tales consider basic questions. Life is a test, they say, but life comes to us as unanswered and even unanswerable questions - come to each, but surely we can't respond to all those questions, not with any confidence or authority? It all shimmers, seems uncertain, without a purpose, and yet - the heroine in The Test sees her partner swept away by gunfire, gone for good or ill, unloved and probably unmourned. She sees the solidity of all around her questioned, religions which might seem to give an answer instead propose a self-denial, abnegation ... many adventures, which should prepare her to sit a test, an examination - but instead ... the Test, it seems, is an end in itself. There is no winning if you come first, or if you pass, no loss - though we don't know - if you should fail. And yet - the protagonist, right at the end, feels she has in some way 'passed'.

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