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The enchanted clock : a novel /
In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time--hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds--...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Versailles; 1. When?; 2. "Theo." What a Story!; 3. My Name is Claude-Siméon Passemant; 4. Nivi Can See Him as If She Were There . . .; 5. Even Though Time Disappears; 6. I Dream, Therefore I Am; 7. At the Collège Mazarin, During the Regency; 8. Now; 9. Where Are You, Astro of Mine?; 10. King, God, and Complex Time; 11. Louis the Beloved; 12. The Famous Clock; 13. Among the Convulsionaries; 14. Someone Has Whispered a Sentence in My Sleep; 15. "You Are My Depth"; 16. Mama, Are You French?; II. Black Matter; 17. Inside-Outside; 18. What Is an Internal Coup d'état?; 19. I Have Again Dreamed of Your Ancestor
- 20. Passemant with the Cassinis; 21. Here I Am at the Place de l'étoile; 22. Happiness and Fire: With Émilie du Châtelet; 23. Do New Patients Exist?; 24. In Praise of Illusions; 25. Marianne's Silhouette; 26. The Dream of the Primordial Universe; III. Rebirth; 27. Death Is Not News; 28. Overdose; 29. Once Again I Have Broken with the Human Race; 30. A Ray of Icy Light; 31. Revolutions Start Like This; 32. Hyperconnectivity; 33. Common Intensities, Strange Intimacies; 34. Scenes from Life at Court; 35. Theo Has Just Landed; 36. Variations on Suicide; IV. The Theft of the Clock; 37. 9999 Has Been Stolen; 38. Beauty Spots; 39. Superluminal Speed
- 40. Inestimable Trophy; 41. Signed, Passemant; 42. The King Is Naked; or, The Beginning of an End; 43. What If He's the One!; 44. Aubane Would Have Preferred to Evaporate; 45. Jealousy? What Jealousy?; 46. Conspiracy for a Cause; 47. Together Again: The King and His Clockmaker; 48. Beehive; 49. Where Were You?; 50. What the Press Wasn't Saying; 51. Paradise Is at the Lux; 52. Silence and Poem; 53. Rose Laurels.