Chimes: 2018 Edition (emended Blazevox book pdf)
Chimes by Adam Fieled was released as a Blazevox print book in 2009. This is the 2018, emended edition, emended Blazevox book pdf.
Chimes by Adam Fieled was released as a Blazevox print book in 2009. This is the 2018, emended edition, emended Blazevox book pdf.
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#54<br />
A sense of things not being right manifested in the new house immediately. I had<br />
nothing to say to the enchantress or her children; they had nothing to say to me.<br />
Dad’s gaiety became shrill and forced. I had no good advice for him; he had given<br />
me a role I could not begin to fulfill. Within six weeks, the enchantress and her<br />
children were gone, back to the husband and father they had abandoned. Dad and I<br />
were alone in a creepy house, a shadow of the one we had so lately left. Dad’s<br />
reaction to this stunning failure was to ape superiority; that though everything had<br />
gone wrong it was not his responsibility. Others had let him down. He had always<br />
been flinty; he became flintier. I was overwhelmed by the feeling of having been<br />
involved in a spectacular mess; I felt and shared Dad’s criminality, which he himself<br />
had (to and for himself) abjured. I bore the burdens that he would not.<br />
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