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Kraft's most inventive and downright fun novel yet. "A real delight. Peter Leroy's world shines through just like childhood itself: both tiny and enormous, full of mystery and wonder."--Robert Plunket,New York Times Book Review.Black-and-white photographs.
Peter Leroy is now a 13-almost-14 year old naive teenager. He has befriended the Glynn family; painting with Mr. Glynn, writing contest poetry with Mrs. Glynn and jumping into bed with their lovely twin daughters, Margot and Martha. Every member of the Glynn family has something to teach young Peter. Andy Glynn has Peter secretly improving the sketches of his art students. Rosetta Glynn instructs Peter on the art of writing with "the shock of the new, cushioned by the familiar" And the Glynn twins? Let's just say they start him off with simultaneously manipulating two peas; rolling them under his fingertips. You get the picture.
At Home with the Glynns can only be described as fast, fun and funny. Eric Kraft has this way of mingling truth with imagination - so much so that you aren't sure what's really going on. Or, maybe it's just that Peter's memories are faulty. Memoirs are only as good as what you want to remember. For example, the twins, Martha and Margot, aren't really twins at all. ( )
A disarmingly charming and funny novel of twin girls and a boy who grow up as next door neighbors. This is an extraordinarily well written gentle character study. ( )
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Show me an epigraph and I'll show you a novel which has too good an idea of what it's about.
— Stanley Elkin, "The Graduate Seminar"
The artist cannot dignify officialdom by opposing it in a solemn fashion, because that would mean taking it too seriously and inadvertently reinforcing its authority, thus acknowledging that authority. . . . In today's rushed, confusing society in which everything mixes and is mixed up and destroyed, the ridiculous does run the risk of "swallowing up" art too. But the artist, even if he has been relegated to the position of a buffoon, tries to assume ... an ambiguous stance, to place himself on a shaky seesaw, to transform the loss into a later gain.
— Norman Manea, On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but in your memory.. . . That way, your memories and your fantasy are freed from the tyranny of nature.
— Edgar Degas to Georges Jeanniot
(quoted by Otto Friedrich in Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet)
All good and true draughtsmen draw from the image imprinted on their brains, and not from nature. . . . When a true artist has come to the point of the final execution of his work, the model would be more of an embarrassment than a help to him.
— Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life" (translated by Jonathan Mayne)
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.
Suppose Sonia tries her best to enact a paradox. She resolves that tomorrow she will enter the time machine and emerge today, unless a version of her first emerges today, having set out from tomorrow; and that if a version of her does emerge today, she will not enter the time machine tomorrow. Within classical physics, that resolution is self-contradictory. But not under quantum physics. In half the universes—call them A—an older Sonia steps out of the time machine. Consequently, just as she resolved, Sonia does not enter the time machine tomorrow, and each A-universe thereafter contains two Sonias of slightly different ages. In the other (B) universes, no one emerges from the time machine . . . .
So in half the universes there is a meeting between two Sonias, and in half there is not. In the A-universes an older Sonia appears "from nowhere," and in the B-universes she disappears "into nowhere." Each A-universe then contains two Sonias, the older one having started life in a B-universe. Sonia has gone missing from each B-universe, having emigrated to an A-universe . . . .
Suppose that Sonia's boyfriend, Stephen, stays behind while she uses her time machine in one of the ways we have described. In half the universes, she enters it and never returns. Thus, from Stephen's point of view, there is a possibility that he will be separated from her. Half the versions of him will see Sonia departing, never to return. (The other half will be joined by a second Sonia.) But from Sonia's point of view, there is no possibility of her being separated from Stephen, because every version of her will end up in a universe containing a version of him—whom she will have to share with another version of herself.
— from "The Quantum Physics of Time Travel"
David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood
Scientific American, March 1994
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Although the threat of atomic warfare hung over us constantly when I was a boy in Babbington, New York, we didn't think about annihilation all the time.
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I suppose that, after a moment's stunned hesitation, Andy burst through the door and began playing the part of the Giant vexed by the shock of the new, but I can't say for certain, because by then I was already on my way down the ladder.
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Kraft's most inventive and downright fun novel yet. "A real delight. Peter Leroy's world shines through just like childhood itself: both tiny and enormous, full of mystery and wonder."--Robert Plunket,New York Times Book Review.Black-and-white photographs.
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At Home with the Glynns can only be described as fast, fun and funny. Eric Kraft has this way of mingling truth with imagination - so much so that you aren't sure what's really going on. Or, maybe it's just that Peter's memories are faulty. Memoirs are only as good as what you want to remember. For example, the twins, Martha and Margot, aren't really twins at all. (