Word: martha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel in her Children of Violence series, the author takes her heroine, Martha Quest, from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...
...There is even more reason to doubt Kennedy's explanation for his dangerous swim from Chappaquiddick to Martha's Vineyard after the accident. Though regular ferry service stops at midnight, a 100 phone call from the Chappaquiddick dock will bring the ferry out at any time in response to any kind of emergency. A sign is visible for anyone to see, and the cost is only slightly higher than during regular hours (500 per passenger v. 150). "We come out after midnight for any legitimate reason," says Gared Grant, the ferry operator. "It doesn't have...
...dived several times in an effort to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne, that he returned later with Paul Markham and Joseph Gargan in an effort to reach the girl. By a plurality of 44% to 31%, those interviewed also accept his statement that he impulsively swam from Chappaquiddick to Martha's Vineyard...
...left to her solitary fate--most probably, like Septimus in Mrs. Dalloway, Linda would have simply destroyed herself. At best, she could only hope to remain locked up for life, half-mad, in a Gothic tower. But, in this novel, Linda is treated as a prophet as she conducts Martha through the looking glass into another, better world...
...LESSING, those that society has labelled mad are actually those super-perceptive, rare individuals whose natural telepathic and extrasensory powers have not atrophied. Martha, in her role as a letter-day Mrs. Dalloway peering into the crevice that separates two eras, discovers that she shares certain affinities with Linda. From that point, it is not long before Martha is voluntarily undergoing harrowing experiments in order to determine the limits of her consciousness. As the novel closes, she is stranded off the Scottish coast, England having been decimated by poison gas and radioactivity. She has also become a member...