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** ''Boneland'' is also an echo of TheWasteLand of Creator/TSEliot, a place of broken dreams and dissillusionment.
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Recursion Is Happening
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Colin and the Watcher are playing out the same issues of loss and trauma, in much the same geological place but separated by up to half a million years in time. Both are struggling to work out what is happening to them according to their conditioning and cultural preconceptions. Garner even hints that {{Recursion}} is happening and they are somehow directly linked.
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** Meg - her name invokes Arthurian witch Morgana leFay. Who trapped the wizard, Merlin, into eternal imprisonment in a cavern under the earth.
** The multilayered derivations of the unspoken name ''Susan'' - which variably derives from a flower associated with death and transition, the lily; from a flower associated with spiritual growth and fulfilment - the lotus; and from a Middle Eastern deity of protection and guarding, ''Inshusana''.
** ''Fay'' - a Faerie spirit, an elf, the "fey", that which comes from the Otherworld.
** The multilayered derivations of the unspoken name ''Susan'' - which variably derives from a flower associated with death and transition, the lily; from a flower associated with spiritual growth and fulfilment - the lotus; and from a Middle Eastern deity of protection and guarding, ''Inshusana''.
** ''Fay'' - a Faerie spirit, an elf, the "fey", that which comes from the Otherworld.
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Where did the magic go? There was tons of it around here when I was twelve but now i\'m 46 and really need it therte doesn\'t seem to be any left...
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: the conceit of the original books was that Colin and Susan were staying with foster-parents (the Mossocks) who were known to the Whisterfield parents, whilst the parents worked overseas in an occupation not given. ''Boneland'' expands on this by offering the extra layer of childhood trauma: that the parents died in an air crash, making the fostering into permanent adoption. Colin can effortlessly recite the call-sign of the aircraft in which his parents died, as if this is a mantra against grief at his loss, a way of not needing to think too much about it. This is his first reaction whenever Meg raises the matter.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: the conceit of the original books was that Colin and Susan were staying with foster-parents (the Mossocks) who were known to the Whisterfield parents, whilst the parents worked overseas in an occupation not given. ''Boneland'' expands on this by offering the extra layer of childhood trauma: that the parents died in an air crash, making the fostering into permanent adoption. Colin can effortlessly recite the flight number and call-sign of the aircraft in which his parents died, as if this is a mantra against grief at his loss, a way of not needing to think too much about it. This is his first reaction whenever Meg raises the matter. [[note]]There is a real-world plane crash that EXACTLY fits the information given by Garner. Polish Airlines internal flight no 165, aircraft call-sign/registration being SP-LTF, crashed in heavy snow in the Carpathian mountains in April 1969. Four people on board were confirmed to be American and British. Now how will this fit the plot: what is Garner implying here? [[/note]]
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Gowther and Bess Mossock, who, inferentially, suffered trauma and grief, especially at Susan's presumed death. They went to their own deaths five or six years later feeling a sense of grief and failure that they failed in a duty to their adopted children, and to the dead Whisterfield parents, who in their time had been loved and cherished in the same way (Bess Mossock had been nanny to Colin and Susan's mother). It is inferred that they did not recover from the loss of Susan, and keenly felt the psychological damage to Colin.
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* [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]: there are several homages to other authors and creative artists. Possibly as a way of reminding us things should never be taken entirely seriously, to alert us to the [[{{Trickster}} Cosmic Joker]] being active, there is an allusion to a very-well known song about mental stability by Music/{{Genesis}}. Garner also writes from British, specifically English, folklore and traditional themes. As {{Homage}} to one who fished in the same stream and also lived in the tradition of the English storyteller, giving old stories new slants, there is a blatant reference to Creator/TerryPratchett's ''{{Discworld}}'' novel of things beginning in stone eggs, ''Literature/{{Thud}}''. Garner even represents the noise of flint-knapping as
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* [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]: there are several homages to other authors and creative artists. Possibly as a way of reminding us things should never be taken entirely seriously, to alert us to the [[Trickster [[{{Trickster}} Cosmic Joker]] being active, there is an allusion to a very-well known song about mental stability by Music/{{Genesis}}. Garner also writes from British, specifically English, folklore and traditional themes. As {{Homage}} to one who fished in the same stream and also lived in the tradition of the English storyteller, giving old stories new slants, there is a blatant reference to Creator/TerryPratchett's ''{{Discworld}}'' novel of things beginning in stone eggs, ''Literature/{{Thud}}''. Garner even represents the noise of flint-knapping as
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** Indeed, an inferred detail is that given the vulgarisation of the area, magic is no longer possible here in the way it was fifty years ago: a theme of ''The Moon of Gomrath'' was the way how, even then, human ignorance and "progress" was driving out the older magical races, Good and Evil alike, and forcing them to the margins, like Native Americans. How pollution was killing the Elves, and the introduction of firearms to human warfare was having a psychic resonance - for the bad - on the older peoples. The caves under the Edge are seen to be empty. Were the older peoples ever here at all, or has human interference reached a tipping point and rendered them extinct? ''Did we kill the Magic?'' But like so much else, this is ambiguous...
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* AuthorTract: Alan Garner is known to loathe the ongoing "gentrification" of Alderley Edge by the rich and tasteless, which elsewhere he has deplored as sucking out the magic and character from a town he loves and still lives in. In comparing the "old" Alderley Edge from the new, and the change that has taken place in the fifty years between the books, he is surprisingly restrained, voicing his feelings through incidental asides spoken by Colin (who cannot bear going anywhere near the farmhouse he grew up in, now it has been sold on and "gentrified" and is no longer a working farm. Garner is known to feel the same way about the former working farm that inspired the Mossocks' Highmost Redmanhey.)
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* TheGhost: Susan, who is "present" throughout, although physically long gone. Her memory haunts colin and is indirectly responsible for everything he has done since she "died".
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* TraumaAmnesia: The other explanation, the rational and surface one, for Colin's loss of his conscious memories of events before he was thirteen. Given the level of [[BreakTheCutie trauma]] he received, this is not surprising.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Colin. It is progressively revealed throughout the book that before he was thirteen, he was:
** possibly abducted and sexually abused by a man and a woman;
** His parents died in a plane crash;
** Lost his twin sister in mysterious circumstances - she went horse-riding by night, and only the horse was found; it is assumed she was thrown in the waters of a lake and drowned;
** Was struck by lightning while alone in the hills, suffering brain damage that wenmt undetected until an MRI scan in later adulthood.
** possibly abducted and sexually abused by a man and a woman;
** His parents died in a plane crash;
** Lost his twin sister in mysterious circumstances - she went horse-riding by night, and only the horse was found; it is assumed she was thrown in the waters of a lake and drowned;
** Was struck by lightning while alone in the hills, suffering brain damage that wenmt undetected until an MRI scan in later adulthood.
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* [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]: there are several homages to other authors and creative artists. Possibly as a way of reminding us things should never be taken entirely seriously, to alert us to the Cosmic Joker being active, there is an allusion to a very-well known song about mental stability by Music/{{Genesis}}. Garner also writes from British, specifically English, folklore and traditional themes. As {{Homage}} to one who fished in the same stream and also lived in the tradition of the English storyteller, giving old stories new slants, there is a blatant reference to Creator/SirTerryPratchett's ''{{Discworld}}'' novel of things beginning in stone eggs, ''Literature/{{Thud}}''. Garner even represents the noise of flint-knapping as
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Terry Pratchett homage. Oh, and there\'s always been Ethel...
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* [[CallBack Call Backs]]: The book is peppered with references and allusions to people, places, events and conversations in the first two books: often presented in the sort of hazy, distorted, dream-like way in which an adult will recall conversations and people from a childhood around thirty years prior to the "present day".
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--> ''[[Literature/{{Thud}} Tak, Tak, Tak, Tak, Tak...]]''
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Blessed by forgetting: laser guided amnesia? Or the trauma sort?
* BrokenMasquerade: one interpretation (among many) of the ambiguous and multilayered story is that Colin Whisterfield was blessed with LaserGuidedAmnesia as an act of mercy by Cadellin and the Lady, after walking in the magic otherworld and fighting in its battles. This was necessary to preserve the secret of the Sleepers and the peoples of Magic from an ever-encroaching human peril, as well as to protect his own sanity. If this is true, there would also be a need to cover for the (ambiguous) destiny of his sister [[TheNameless Susan]], thought dead by by the human world, although [[NeverFoundTheBody no body was ever found]]. But in adulthood, memories and flashbacks and bad dreams are surfacing; it becomes clear the amnesia is not total.
* TheGhost: Susan, who is "present" throughout, although physically long gone. Her memory haunts colin and is indirectly responsible for everything he has done since she "died".
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* FreudWasRight: Colin retreats into underground caves when the world gets to be too much for him. He senses the answers to his fugue state are to be found in underground places; he lives in a disused quarry with lots of natural and man-made holes in the ground. Meanwhile The Watcher, who may be in another place and time, performs rituals in caves to propriate a mother-goddess and bring into being those things he, as a man, cannot create.
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* FreudianSlipperySlope: This novel is the continuation, for grown-ups, of the 1960 and 1963 novels ''Literature/TheWeirdstoneOfBrisingamen'' and ''Literature/TheMoonOfGomrath''. This is a psychodrama that plays with the idea (among many) that the events of the first two books might be complete fantasy created inside the head of Colin Whisterfield to deal with a series of shattering traumas in early adolescence. For instance, that the memory of being abducted by a black-magic witch straight out of the pages of a not-very-good fantasy story, and by her evil dwarf servant, masks a more "mundane" case of childhood sexual assault. The Dwarf did threaten him with penetration by a long rigid sword, and was even ''called'' Pelis The False - one letter away from... and the witch did greet him with "Welcome. Long have our teeth rusted seeking ''your'' flesh." He recalls being tied down, soiling himself and lying in immobile terror...
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* FreudWasRight: Colin retreats into underground caves when the world gets to be too much for him. He senses the answers to his fugue state are to be found in underground places; he lives in a disused quarry with lots of natural and man-made holes in the ground. Meanwhile The Watcher, who may be in another place and time, performs rituals in caves to propriate a mother-goddess and bring into being those things he, as a man, cannot create.
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* TheHecateSisters: Garner's work retells old folk myths from the British Isles and draws on thousands of years of oral and mythological tradition. The mythology and folklore of the moon and lunar cycles features heavily, as does the symbolism of triads and triples. Observe the triad of roles played by Meg Massey as she shifts gears and approaches in dealing with Colin's mercurial states. She is almost-girlfriend(the maiden, the waxing moon); healing therapist (the nurturing Mother, the Full Moon) and closes her involvement with a kind of separation(the waning old moon, the Crone, herald of Death and change).
* InnocenceLost: Colin Whisterfield in the multi-level, multi-ambiguous, ever-shifting ''Bonelands''. Is he - in reality - a survivor of child sex abuse? Whose trauma was then compounded when his sister drowned accidentally? That his memories of dealing with an evil witch in a primal fight against evil , abducted to her by her dwarf servant, are really of sexual trauma.
* InnocenceLost: Colin Whisterfield in the multi-level, multi-ambiguous, ever-shifting ''Bonelands''. Is he - in reality - a survivor of child sex abuse? Whose trauma was then compounded when his sister drowned accidentally? That his memories of dealing with an evil witch in a primal fight against evil , abducted to her by her dwarf servant, are really of sexual trauma.
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* InsufferableGenius: Colin hovers on the brink of this and Meg accuses him of cultivating it as a pose, to drive people away when they get too close.
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** Meg - her name involkes Arthurian witch Morgana leFay.
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The final book in a trilogy by Creator/AlanGarner, ‘'Boneland’' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in ''Literature/TheWeirdstoneOfBrisingamen'' and continued in ''Literature/TheMoonOfGomrath''.
Professor Colin Whisterfield is a brilliant academic and polymath, described as a high-functioning Aspergers case. He spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope (officially) to study constellation M45 for its scientific interest. Unofficially, he is using it for a completely unorthodox purpose he professionally needs to keep secret. There are grave doubts as to his sanity and he is on serious medication for psychiatric purposes. Running out of ideas, his doctor refers him to a gifted but seriously maverick psychiatrist. She has it in her favour that she is also a genius psychotherapist.
At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying.
Colin can’t remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years and nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day.
Magic and mysticism meet science, art and religion as Colin begins to disentangle the trapped and seemingly lost events of his childhood.
!!Tropes which may or may not manifest in this book, and dance on the edge of awareness in a tantalisingly ambiguous way in which Quantum may show itself, include the following. Or may not. Or maybe.
Professor Colin Whisterfield is a brilliant academic and polymath, described as a high-functioning Aspergers case. He spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope (officially) to study constellation M45 for its scientific interest. Unofficially, he is using it for a completely unorthodox purpose he professionally needs to keep secret. There are grave doubts as to his sanity and he is on serious medication for psychiatric purposes. Running out of ideas, his doctor refers him to a gifted but seriously maverick psychiatrist. She has it in her favour that she is also a genius psychotherapist.
At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying.
Colin can’t remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years and nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day.
Magic and mysticism meet science, art and religion as Colin begins to disentangle the trapped and seemingly lost events of his childhood.
!!Tropes which may or may not manifest in this book, and dance on the edge of awareness in a tantalisingly ambiguous way in which Quantum may show itself, include the following. Or may not. Or maybe.
