Word: nite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth, the personal subtext of events, had replaced. Down the wet streets of Cambridge Bell walked, but he walked, careless of time and of history, down into the fading gray all-nite movie theatre pool hall used car lot out front of Dreamland, a Jungian slide show punctuated by snatched conversations and bits of song, run by the Prince Emmanuel himself, down in the Prince Emmanuel's land. Dreamland...
...entire novel is written in this language--mystifying but intelligible--and soon we learn why: the story takes place thousands of years in the future. The planet has been transformed, legend has it by a "flash of lite bigger nor the woal worl and it ternt the nite to day." The legend takes on an unsettling reality when we read that the "flash" was brought on by one "Littl Shynin Man the Addom...
...like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth, the personal subtext of events, had replaced. Down the wet streets of Cambridge Bell walked, but he walked, careless of time and of history, down down into the fading gray all-nite movie theatre pool hall used car lot out front of Dreamland, a Jungian slide show punctuated by snatched conversations and bits of song, run by the Prince Emmanuel himself, down in the Prince Emmanuel's land. Dreamland...