Upstream/Downstream by Colonel Next, QT, CC (non-exist.)
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| The Black Brook by John Singer Sargent: thanks to the Tate |
Author: Colonel Next, QT, CC (non-exist.)
Publisher: unpublished
Source book: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
‘Landen Parke-Laine’s eradication was the best I’d seen since Veronica Golightly’s. They plucked him out and left everything exactly how it was. Not a crude hatchet job like Churchill or Victor Borge - we got those sorted out eventually. What I never figured out was how they took him and left her memories of him completely intact. Agreed, there would be no point to the eradication without her knowing what she had missed, but it still intrigued me over four centuries later. Eradication was never an exact art.’
It’s a bit of a mystery how Thursday’s father was completely eradicated from the timeline, and yet still managed to turn up for breakfast with her mother most days. But where did he find the time to write this memoir? I suppose that’s what time travel is for. But how did he become such an accomplished time traveller? Perhaps it’s genetic. Granny Next seems to be a bit of a traveller in time too: she often says she’s off to visit the Medici Court. And she did spend a couple of days as the Supreme Ruler of the Universe (I hope I have this correct - my post it note fell out of Lost in a Good Book and I can’t find the reference).
Granny Next’s husband was also eradicated. Landen Parke-Laine is of course Thursday’s missing husband.
It’s a pity the book is never published; but it’s probably hard to get an agent or a publisher if you don’t exist.
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| Thanks to Simply Charlotte Mason |
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