Shaking the Tree (The Man with Three Names Book 1)

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The Romantics believed in the rehabilitating powers of nature, but there was always a streak of escapism that undermined their political seriousness. The real point of nature was to go out in it and have a feeling; it was a necessary luxury of the poetic classes. As Keats once wrote: Here he addresses some of the difficulties directly:. She remembers now why she never had the patience for nature. No drama, no development, no colliding hopes and fears.

Branching, tangled, messy plots. And she could never keep the characters straight. What you need is a story. Of course, this is an in-joke, too, because The Overstory is full of all these things: Because reluctance and acceptance can go hand in hand.

The Overstory begins with the Hoel family, Norwegians who emigrated to Brooklyn in the midth century, before setting out for Iowa and starting a farm. They brought with them the seeds of a chestnut grove and planted it at the edge of a cornfield. One of the trees makes it to maturity, far enough from any other chestnuts to survive the great blight that sweeps through the US in the early s.

Eventually and for no reason he can understand, old man Hoel takes it into his head to photograph the tree on the same day in March every year, a tradition he passes on to his son, and then grandson, and then great-grandson, and so on, as the farm shrinks in the face of modernisation. Until the final Hoel, Nick, a young art school grad, sells off the last of the land and the house but keeps the pile of odd photographs that track not only the passage of time through a tree but the evolution of the technology that recorded it.

The conceit allows Powers to think of family life in terms of tree years — the slow changes, the generational development, the way patterns are formed and turn out to matter more, in the long run, than the people they are shaped from. It's Christmas time in the early 's and the guys all begin to think it's about time they went about their lives Duane Clark , Steven Wilde.

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Pope knows immediately that Howard is not from this dimension and why D2 Howard sent him over.

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This job apparently entails training people to be spies. Pope warns Howard not to trust Emily.

This means nothing to Howard. Pope suggests he ask Emily about their signal plan. They turn up nothing but some contraband from Dimension Two. Aldrich says it would be easier to search if he knew what they were looking for. Peter says the list of suspects is narrow, just him, Aldrich or any of his men. This last bit reminds Aldrich of something.

He questions how long the moles been in place. Aldrich asks him to come with him for a drive. In Dimension One, Howard again arrives at the hospital. He hears raised voices down the hall and recognizes Andrei. Howard stands unseen and watching.

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He is escorted off the floor. Howard walks to the sign-in sheet and sees that Andrei signed in as Michel Lehner. Howard follows him home, watches him enter his apartment, then unscrews a light bulb to darken the stairwell and waits on the stairs for him to come out. He relates the Alexander Pope meeting and what he said about not trusting her. Howard believes things are not the same here as they are with his Emily.

He wants to know how they became so different. She explains that what she does is only slightly different from what her Howard does.

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Howard asks about when they met. Emily asks about her counterpart. Howard asks Emily if she was really hospitalized for drug overdose. She says it was Alexander Pope who tried to kill her. Emily realizes that the embassy is compromised.

Howard begs to help, he says someone is trying to kill his wife and he wants to help stop them. Baldwin has disassembled her gun and is cleaning it in a bathroom. She reassembles it and looks at her cheek wound in the mirror.

She sits down at the bar in a restaurant and looks longingly at a plate of fried potatoes another person is having. The person eating the potatoes gets up and she again stares hungrily at the plate of half-eaten food.

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