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'If there's one thing to be said about life in captivity, it's that you get to travel.' Harvey Kidd is imprisoned in a floating jail which is heading back to his homeland, Atlantica, an artificial island ruled by a computer system called 'Liberty' which calculates the greatest happiness of the greatest number, readjusts 'marginal' people, and controls a consumer society pushed to the limits where choice is illusory.
Harvey Kidd is a 'damaged' orphan, and we follow his story and his imaginary family, and then his fragile relationship with another frail personality, Hannah, who believes she has a 'block' which prevents her from socialising. Jensen renders this relationship beautifully, along with a twisting plot and the underpinning surreal parable of consumerism and 'people's choice' rhetoric. A warning shot across the bows of our future.
'If there's one thing to be said about life in captivity, it's that you get to travel.' Harvey Kidd is imprisoned in a floating jail which is heading back to his homeland, Atlantica, an artificial island ruled by a computer system called 'Liberty' which calculates the greatest happiness of the greatest number, readjusts 'marginal' people, and controls a consumer society pushed to the limits where choice is illusory.
Harvey Kidd is a 'damaged' orphan, and we follow his story and his imaginary family, and then his fragile relationship with another frail personality, Hannah, who believes she has a 'block' which prevents her from socialising. Jensen renders this relationship beautifully, along with a twisting plot and the underpinning surreal parable of consumerism and 'people's choice' rhetoric. A warning shot across the bows of our future.
Journal Entry 2 by rascalapache at -- Buses, Taxis, Trains and Trams 🚃 -- in Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (8/23/2005 UTC) at -- Buses, Taxis, Trains and Trams 🚃 -- in Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom
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#26 Earlham Rd - UEA
Back Seat
FBF
#26 Earlham Rd - UEA
Back Seat
FBF
Me and my friend found it on the back seat of the 26 bus going to Hellesdon in Norwich, Next Tuesday its being flown to Tenerife where it will be left for another person to find!!
CAUGHT IN NORWICH NORFOLK UK
CAUGHT IN NORWICH NORFOLK UK