Welcome to Litsy!

The consciousness of a man from 1937 UK wanders off into space and he explores the universe.

You have to admire the author's imagination and ideas but don't expect anything like a plot or characterisation. Most of the book is descriptions of life-forms. The descriptions get more and more abstract as we move up the cosmological evolutionary scale and the book became more and more of a struggle to get through but I'm glad I persevered.

One night when I had tasted bitterness I went out on to the hill.

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"Yes! How predestinate had seemed our union! Yet now, in retrospect, how accidental! True, of course, that as a long-married couple we fitted rather neatly, like two close trees whose trunks have grown upwards together as a single shaft, mutually distorting, but mutually supporting."

Sort of hard to get into at the beginning but boy what a narrative. Amazing !!!

The star maker is awesome :)

I haven't been doing photo challenges for ages, but how could I resist #SeptemBowie? Here's my choice for #SpaceOddity
Man gets whisked off to see all of time and space, and myriads of life forms. At times as strange as the end sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Can't get computer access yet so sneaky work reading commences ☺️

"The genitals also were equipped with taste organs."