After Z-Hour by Elizabeth Knox

Author:Elizabeth Knox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Victoria University Press

Throughout his narrative Kelfie’s voice had changed continually; from thoughtful and distant, to animated and flippant—ending in a tone of both quiet wonder and insistent firmness. His voice and what he said made me feel strange. His story was at once too odd to be believable, but too detailed not to be. I said, ‘You don’t expect us to believe that’s a true story?’

‘It was told to me as a true story. I don’t know if it is. But maybe this is the answer.’ Kelfie raised his slight hands against the firelight. ‘We are all strung on time. Francis Taylor was strung on time, but he was a magician’s bangle, one of those shining steel hoops a magician slips, whole, off a taut wire.’

Hannah said, ‘If you ask me, that woman told you a tall story.’

‘We understand what’s meant by book-jacket blurb magic: “This story is sheer magic”—“enchanted”—“a spellbinder”. A good story, even a good tall story, should change your mind, and by changing your mind it should change the world—because the world is what our brains make of it.’

‘My brain makes something quite different of it than yours, I’ll bet.’

‘But you don’t know what I think, Hannah. All I did was tell someone else’s story.’

Basil said, defiantly, ‘I believe it! Why not? Stranger things have happened.’

‘Yes, Basil?’ Kelfie smiled at him. ‘Tell us now what stranger things have happened to you.’

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