The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine, Part X “Ghost town departure: revelation of Alaia”
The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine, Part X
“Ghost town departure: revelation of Alaia”
SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE and click the below titles 116-120, to view the Video-Book versions of mini-chapters 116-120, which constitute Part X of the novel.
Above is the Film “DAMIAN 111”, which is embedded on the title page of Part X of The Imagination Thief’s ebook format. In it are coloured shadows for Part X as a whole, being one lens’s suggestion of Damian West’s parents, back when Damian was still a child.
Click here to read a transcription of this Film “DAMIAN 111”.
(This Film is also on Vimeo and YouTube and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).)
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Click the below titles 116-120, to view the Video-Book versions of mini-chapters 116-120
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116. “Revelation in the breakfast room”—click here for Video-Book “Jaymi … d’you remember my statue of black icing-sugar?” |
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117. “That narrow door”—click here for Video-Book Left alone, I glance down the long, narrow corridor in the other direction, towards Pippa’s closed bedroom door, and am startled to notice a faint light gleaming through the hinge of that narrow door… I creep nearer to it, careful to make no sound. There’s the keyhole. I bend down very slowly, bring my eye level with the keyhole, and peer through. |
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118. “The feet beneath the sheet”—click here for Video-Book When my gaze reaches her mouth, softening at the prospect of its imminent detour into the small curved inlet comprising her parted lips as seen from here, I feel my eyes change focus, from close up to further away: for exactly beyond her lips, in this particular sightline, are Angel’s backwards-pointing feet sticking out from under the sheet. |
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119. “Savagery, mystery, death and confinement”—click here for Video-Book The car is cruising fast, sliding smooth on the curve of an elevated freeway, high as a suspension bridge, that strides grey and silver through the countries of a jungle on a march of slender legs I can see far ahead disappearing in a mist of light. |
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120. “A ring, two spires and a wedding gift”—click here for Video-Book Still clutching Angel’s note, and filled with powerless compassion and vertigo at the depths of pain in her whose lips smudged its author’s signature with such hopeless frequency, I honour that smudging in the only way I can think of: I turn and place a slow, gentle kiss on Alaia’s warm temple. |
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The above Video-Book mini-chapters 116-120 of The Imagination Thief are also linked to from inside the novel’s ebook format. They are here too:
And in the Vimeo showcase “THE IMAGINATION THIEF (novel) – Video-Book format – Rohan Quine”:
mini-chapters 116, 117, 118, 119 and 120 of the video-book format of The Imagination Thief.
And in the YouTube playlist “THE IMAGINATION THIEF (novel) – Video-Book format – Rohan Quine”:
mini-chapters 116, 117, 118, 119 and 120 of the video-book format of The Imagination Thief. (If playback of any of these videos looks at all fuzzy on YouTube, then you can quickly and easily adjust the YouTube video-player’s playback “Quality” setting, by doing the following: (1) if you’re on a mobile device, first touch the video image, then touch the three-dots symbol that appears in the top-right corner of the player, touch “Quality” and choose “1080p” (or the highest other setting available on your device, e.g. “720p”); or (2) if you’re on a laptop/desktop device, click the cog symbol on the lower edge of the video-player, click “Quality” and choose “1080p” (or the highest other setting available on your device, e.g. “720p”).)
The 120 mini-chapter title-cards of The Imagination Thief‘s video-book format are also in the Google Photos album “Rohan Quine – THE IMAGINATION THIEF (novel) – mini-chapter titles”.
The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine is about a web of secrets, triggered by the stealing and copying of people’s imaginations and memories. It’s about the magic that can be conjured up by images of people, in imagination or on film; the split between beauty and happiness in the world; and the allure of various kinds of power. A Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Award 2021, it celebrates some of the most extreme possibilities of human imagination, personality and language, exploring the darkest and brightest flavours of beauty living in our minds.
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