{"product_id":"metopes-john-gardiner-9798682333493","title":"Metopes","description":"Spacetime is a three-dimensional toolbox, or, existential toybox, employed by the dramatis personae in Metopes to analogically gather understanding of the Incarnational Palimpsest: Earth being a Theatre, itself a thought-experiment, all humanity being on-stage here unfolding a specific Destiny, so much however pre-determined by that palimpsest. Beginning with WHAAM! (1968 - 1970), followed in succession by, Exiles (1971 - 1973), Siren (1974 - 1976), Trash (1977 - 1979), and Friezes (1980 - 1982), Metopes continues the journey of the dramatis personae through 1983 - 1985, each year a cloud of probabilities determined by the palimpsests of the previous years.Essentially, Time's palimpsest cannot be wholly erased, but is successively over-written, allied to Quantum Physics' imponderable Truth, that past-present-future are simultaneous, a phenomenon resistant to humanity's three-dimensional perception this cannot be. Highly stylised on the page, Metopes exhibits the visual image determined by Classical Greek Architects\/Sculptors: being a rectangular, decorative frieze bound by spatial triglyphs. Quick-cutting paragraphs on-the-page evoke this, as they do cine-frames, creating a tapestry-effect, a succession of stand-alone metopes in prose, suggestive of the Inner Thinker's view of its embodiments through Time.Time is unstoppable, referred to in Metopes as a long, lonely highway, materialising a startling array of imagery enveloping the dramatis personae.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Gardiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798682333493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.99d","brand":"John Gardiner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48996638851327,"sku":"9798682333493","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metopes-john-gardiner-9798682333493","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}