George B. Chase

Troglodytes Watch (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a satirical fairytale for the 21st century. Troglodytes Watch is the Winter Wren, a direct descendant of the dinosaurs. It survived the calamitous upheaval caused by the meteorite perhaps because it was as it still is: a diminutive, secretive and watchful spirit. The substance of this tale begins with three ancestors who escape from a tribe of headhunters in Borneo around 700 B.C. and ends with some of their descendants on a nuclear waste dump island in the northwest Pacific Ocean where they are prepared to wait out the next evolution-changing, life-arresting calamitous upheaval. The foibles, frolics and conflicts of the various peoples are witnessed, narrated, and influenced by the spirit of Troglodytes. This tale is infused with some literary, some facetious and some deliciously infuriating commentary. The figures are drawn by the writer and the foreign words and expressions should be no burden to the Reader. Relax, read and enjoy the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outskirts Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781977267276
• Artikelnr.: 69133450

Autorenporträt

This tale originated as a soliloquy based on a disorderly collection of unrelated topics, events and expressions, which were later fashioned into a thin slice of history to give it some sense of order. Latin quotations were added to give it some sense of purpose, namely, to show how little human reactions to life and fortune have changed since Roman times: Nothing is being said here that hasn't been said before, (Terence, 150 BCE). A largely concocted genealogy, with bits of genuine genealogical possibilities as well, were added to further increase order and purpose. Troglodytes (the wren) was also included in the frontispiece, first and last chapters, and allusions passim, because he might well have been the sole witness of many such events since the Mesozoic Era.