Anarchy: Advent Trilogy 2 - Hardcover

Treadwell, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444728512 ISBN 13: 9781444728514

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, 2013

Synopsis

1st UK ed. DJ is fine. UNREAD

About this title

About the Author

James Treadwell was born, brought up and educated within a mile of the Thames, and has spent much of his life further reducing the distance between him and the river. He studied and taught for more than a decade near the crossing at Folly Bridge, Oxford, and now lives within sight of the Tideway in West London.

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Anarchy

1

Speak

“ . . .â€

Speak. Speak

“. . . sp . . .â€

Answer

“. . . ah . . .â€

Answer me. Be voiced. Be mouthed

“Be . . .â€

I am speech. I I am mouth and breath. I I I am consonant and vowel. Speak

“I.â€

I am I am I am the irresistible word. I make a mouth out of your shadow of a mouth and a name out of your shadow of a name. Answer me

“Who.â€

Remember me. I am undeniable. I am here

“Nowhere.â€

I speak the sun and light ascends. I speak the arrow and plague falls. I am the lyre and the laurel and the long road. I I I am here. Where I stand is an island in these dark waters. I make a place

“I’m not . . . I’m not.â€

You are. I am inescapable. I am the absence of choice

“Let me go.â€

There is nowhere else to go. I am every road. I am every beginning and every end. I am prophecy. I am desire and I am consummation. I am the bright eye of the heavens. I am the light that falls everywhere

“Not here. It’s so dark.â€

I am without contradiction. Remember. You fled me once

“Don’t.â€

You fled light. You fled the sun. You hid yourself

“Ah.â€

You fled with my seed. You sought the dark. You sought to escape my eye. Say whether I found you

“That was . . .â€

Answer

“When I was . . . I was.â€

Say what happened. Speak

“That was before.â€

I am then and now. I I I am above and below. I pour golden breath in your mouth. My seed is truth. Say it

“You found me.â€

I found you

“You fell on me.â€

I fell on you. I planted my golden seed in you

“Let me go.â€

My seed has grown

“No. Oh no.â€

Remember

“Not that. Not him.â€

My seed has grown and become prophecy. Truth walks the world above

“Let me forget. Please.â€

I forbid it. I I I banish forgetting. I have been forgotten and now and now now there will be no more oblivion

“Let me . . . not speak.â€

You begged me. You refused me. Remember. I am implacable. Remember. Say what happened

“I was . . .â€

Remember

“I went . . .â€

You came east to a place that belonged to me. You refused to forget. You slept among oak trees and the sun rose and turned them golden and I was the gold I was the grove I was the sun and the seed

“Ah. No.â€

And I was the light that fell on you and the light you fled from and I was the beginning of the long road you took and though you hid from me I was also the end

“No. Agony.â€

And I was the seed that took root in you and I was the pain of its growing and I was the bitter music of its birth

“No. I want silence.â€

And I am the plague that burst in blood from your womb and I am the mouth you suckled and I I I I am the word that mouth must speak

“It’s so dark. I’m so alone.â€

I am the blood and the burnt offering and the smoke from the hidden fire. I am the writing on the sibylline leaves. I am everything no longer forgotten. I am the message you could not speak before you died. I have a thousand names and every one of them is true. I give you back your name and your voice

“No one can hear me.â€

I am the voice in darkness. I am the words written in the sky by the wings of birds. I I I I am oracle

“No more. Finished.â€

I I am the road you trod. I am not finished. I have no horizon

“Let me go. Let me be forgotten.â€

I deny it. Remember

“Ah.â€

I am the light that always returns. I am the sun the sun the sun

“My son. I remember. Our son.â€

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1444728512
• ISBN 13: 9781444728514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480