No point in moping about what's been lost.
What I have is what I have, and that's what I need to use.
There's also what I can see in this world, all around me. There's a lot I can infer, just by looking at the world with different eyes - the eyes I've gained by looking into Aunt Kat's world, the world of the Commonwealth.
Down to work.
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Those three themes I keep coming across:
Weird politics.
Weird plant-things.
Weird battles where the aim is that nobody dies.
From what I've seen so far, they all seem to derive from the same three things, about relating:
How we relate with ourselves.
How we relate with others.
How we relate to the wider world.
And for the Commonwealth, all of those in turn seem to link back to just one thing:
A document called 'An Agreement of the People'.
Which, I've just discovered, did exist in our timeline, as much as it did in theirs.
The difference is that in our world, we never got much further than talking about it.
But in their world, seems they put it into practice, as the core constitution for what would become the Commonwealth, right across the globe.
Which kind of suggests that that document might be more than a bit important?
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I haven't found as yet a copy of their version of the Agreement in Aunt Kat's papers. Most of the political-type stuff was in the library, so it was probably lost from there.
But for our version, even a quick web-search turns up quite a lot of the history about it. Best source I've found so far is a website about the British Civil War - the 'BCW Project' - though no doubt I'll find others later.
Getting a bit obsessed about this now. Not surprising, maybe, but still.
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The Viner Dimension
Science FictionA simple-seeming bequest sends Alan on an exploration that turns steadily stranger at every turn: "Weird politics. Weird plant-things. Weird battles where nobody dies." --- Set in the recent past in rural England, this blog-like story provides a fir...
