“Complexity should be your excuse for inaction.” ~Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August “Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence’s sake?” ‘I need to send a message.’ This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.” Goodreads ‘I nearly missed you, Doctor August,’ she says. Photo: Ints Valcis (Public Domain)Īs Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. Nothing ever changes.Ĭover for The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. “No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. ~Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Plot summary The most it ever seems we know how to do with time is to waste it.” We can mathematically deploy it, use it to express ideas about the observable universe, and yet if asked to explain it in simple language to a child – in simple language which is not deceit, of course – we are powerless. We can divide it into simple parts, measure it, arrange dinner by it, drink whisky to its passage.
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