World Enough and Time, by Harley Staggars
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World Enough and Time, by Harley Staggars
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We will forgive your indiscrete staring if, on the coldest night of an uncommonly cold Minnesota winter, when the aurora borealis dances across the northern sky and the stars appear as crystal ornaments hung in the astral sphere, you should meet a person in a busy intersection wearing only shoes and stockings and sporting a large brass spittoon pulled down over his head and concealing his face. And if, as you approach, you should recognize that person – from the configuration of moles and scars and a small tattoo – as your own sweet self, we will acknowledge that these events transcend normal experience, and we will understand your momentary confusion. You may require some time even to phrase the question, “How can this be?” And, finding no answer, you will at first decide, “I am mistaken.” or “I must be dreaming.” But, should your further scrutiny reveal that this person can be none other, and if you pinch yourself and do not waken, then you must resurrect your question. Such questions will not go unanswered. Hallucinations, if you are not mad, and visions, if you are not religious, are insufficient explanation and do not satisfy your need to know. You may, if you are the sort to speculate, consider the possibility that you have been transported to a parallel universe. But we cannot expect you to guess the truth: that there are more dimensions of time and space than you have faculty to comprehend, and that, to effect this rendezvous, you will have had to travel sideways through time.
World Enough and Time, by Harley Staggars- Amazon Sales Rank: #2025476 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-30
- Released on: 2015-11-30
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About the Author I was born Earl Carlson, by the light of a kerosene lamp in a small logging community in northern Minnesota, just fifty miles up a dirt road from the nearest public library. During the school year, I had access to a number of books judged suitable for students, and a drug store in the next town carried paperback novels – usually twenty five cents a copy. So I had access to Drums Along the Mohawk and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, even The Grapes of Wrath. And I had a subscription to Boys’ Life (to which, at the age of twelve, I submitted my first story, handwritten in a spiral notebook). But I didn't discover Dostoevsky, Henry James, Lafcadio Hearne and Aldous Huxley until I ventured out into the wider world. Among my many missteps and misadventures: * my first attempt at higher learning was aborted after one semester at the University of Illinois; * I held the exalted rank of pfc in the army for nearly two weeks before I got busted back down to private; and * I spent the spring, summer and much of the fall of 1960 as a hobo-in-training, At the age of 38, I finally received a bachelors degree from the University of Minnesota with a 3.65 average by which time I had exhausted my GI Bill benefits. So I sought solace in a number of menial and demeaning jobs, and eventually I secured a civil service position in which I grew fat and lazy. Over the years, I beat the living hell out of several secondhand typewriters, none of which seemed capable of completing an error-free page. But it wasn’t until I bought my first computer, in 1988, that I was able to produce a finished product. For a time, I wrote a humorous newsletter for an organization called the Society of Dirty Old Men, which we hoped would make us all filthy rich selling tee-shirts and souvenirs to college students. Following the demise of that brave new venture, I turned to writing short stories, and I have managed to accumulate a truly impressive collection of rejection slips. In fact, I believe I have spent more on postage than I will ever receive in payment for my work. Since I adopted the pen name, Harley Staggars, my short stories have appeared in several periodicals, both print and digital media, and I have published two short story collections under my real name. I'm still waiting for a response from Boys' Life.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A pleasure to read! By K. Salava In World Enough and Time, Harley Staggars has created a universe in which time is multi-dimensional, with a nearly infinite number of time streams branching out like the limbs of a tree, and each time stream carries its own unique reality. Those realities in time streams adjacent to one another will be nearly indistinguishable, but the farther apart they are the more different they will be. In fact, as one of the characters proposes, anything that can possibly happen can’t possibly not happen—somewhere in multi-dimensional time. Without resorting to obscure scientific language, the author manages to make it all seem quite plausible.The story concerns adolescent lovers, torn apart by tragedy, to be reunited twenty years later by another tragedy, which renders them able to travel through time—forward into the future, back into the past, and sideways through divergent time streams to visit alternative realities. The novel remains light-hearted and humorous through what might have been rather dark episodes. As one of the characters remarks . . . well, that might be giving away too much.Throughout the book, the author discusses such philosophical subjects as the creative process as it pertains to art, what constitutes humor, the deleterious effect of the Hays Commission on a young couple’s first kiss, the inter-relationship of knowledge and progress, and the importance of understanding the failings of others, as opposed to either pointing the finger of blame or forgiving.There are rules to creative writing, but—as the saying goes—rules are made to be broken, and Harley Staggars breaks more than his share of them. To begin with, the introduction, by definition, should appear at the beginning to introduce the story. He has placed the introduction at the end, where he calls it a caudal appendage. At the beginning, where we would expect to find the introduction, he has written A Non-Introduction to explain why he put the introduction at the end. Perhaps most unconventionally, Chapter One, written in the past tense, ends in a climactic moment in 1972, while Chapters Two and Three, set in a bucolic 1952, are in the present tense. Chapter Four, back again in 1972, resumes in past tense. It would seem he has done this purposely to emphasize the immediacy of the 1952 experience, which is not simply a flash-back, but rather what one of the characters calls a traumatic regression.Moreover, the narrator speaks in first person plural, which poses questions: Is this merely the editorial we? Or is it a device to invite the readers into the action, to make them participants in the story? Perhaps it indicates that the narrator is acting as the spokesman for a group, an alien race that is observing our world, or—as is hinted at one point—a species from the far distant future, into which humanity will someday evolve.There are also several breaches of the fourth wall—If I may borrow that phrase from the world of the theater—such as when the reader is warned not to make any unnecessary noise that might break the concentration of the characters, while they travel sideways through time.There is much more to be said about World Enough and Time, but perhaps I have revealed too much already. I will conclude by saying this little book is a pleasure to read, and it just may cause you to question things you have always taken for granted, most notably the nature of time.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A highly enjoyable read. By rachel coyne If Kurt Vonnegut, Lorna Landvik and Douglas Adams walked into a bar and drank a bottle of 100 proof ectoplasm, this might well be the book they'd write. A highly enjoyable read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not nearly as intimidating as you might think By Earl L. Carlson This short novel is set in a universe in which time is multi-dimensional with diverging time streams, each containing a unique reality--a universe in which "anything that can possibly happen can't possibly not happen" somewhere in multi-dimensional time. Actually, it is the author's contention that you and I live in just such a universe, consistent with the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Although it all sounds very confusing, the explanation--as provided by one of the characters and amplified by the author in the Caudal Appendage--is really quite easy to follow.The very likable characters, owing to a series of unfortunate incidents, are launched on a voyage of philosophical discovery, which culminates in a happy ending and a satisfying conclusion. Although, of course, the conclusion is also the beginning.
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