I knew that I was still and time was moving, and wondered how it had taken me so long to comprehend that this was the nature of time itself, and wished I had a notebook to hand so I could jot down these thoughts–these profound, beautiful thoughts I had never thought before, which would, I felt certain, revolutionise the way mankind worked. It was written during her school holidays. She completed her Mirror Dreams book just at the age of 14 years. She is a British author who is a graduate of the London School of Economics.
My arms and legs were heavy, my mouth was dry, and I did not care, for my mouth was not mine. Wildly original, funny and moving, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an extraordinary story of a life lived again and again from World Fantasy. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is a gripping genre fiction novel. So, having known what euphoria is, it remains precisely that–a word with longing attached, but no meaning when actually experiencing the thing. There are some other kalachakras in the world, most of them organized under a secret society. A happiness beyond compare, a contentment beyond understanding, a bliss, a travelling, a freeing of the mind from the flesh–these are all, in their ways, an appropriate description of the process, but they mean nothing, for no recollection can re-create them and no substitute mimic them. Harry August is a 'kalachakra', a person who relives their life from birth to death multiple times, while keeping the memories and knowledge gathered during their previous lives. Euphoria is, I believe, the term they use to describe the sensation, and upon experience I found it to be an entirely useless definition, as it relies on comparatives that are not apt to the situation.
Join hundreds of thousands of satisfied members who previously spent countless hours searching for media and content online, now enjoying the hottest new Books, Magazines & Comics“She was good with a needle–I hardly felt it go in. He then finds himself born again back in 1919 in the same circumstances, gaining the knowledge of his earlier life at an early age. "I need to send a message."This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow. Harry August is born in the women's washroom of Berwick-upon-Tweed station in 1919, leads an unremarkable life, and dies in hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1989. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August," she says. Nothing ever changes.Until now.As Harry nears the end of his 11th life, a little girl appears at his bedside. Again.No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Listening Length: 12 hours and 10 minutesSome stories cannot be told in just one lifetime.Harry August is on his deathbed.
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