Project Gutenberg 2010-01-06 Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details. 394 Brown, Paul Cameron 1948 Browne, Paul Cameron The Land of Look Behind To cross the bay -- Upturn the rock -- Seaeggs -- The hire -- The nightlamp -- The strongbox -- The sandpit -- The wager -- Errands -- Ponchontas -- The bloodfish -- The garden patch -- The monarch -- Brébeuf -- City the insects invade -- Plaudits -- Summer's clock -- Automobile soft legs -- The pelly, the powder and the snake -- Jabiru -- Adua -- Rip. Produced by Sorour Imani "The Land of Look Behind" by Paul Cameron Brown is a collection of interwoven stories and prose written in the late 20th century. The work merges various genres like satire, beast fables, and short narratives, exploring concepts of myths, creation, and personal identity through a lens that reflects upon both the natural world and human experience. The collection examines the philosophical undercurrents of existence and perception while presenting characters navigating their reality, often in relation to the past and cultural mythologies. At the start of this narrative, the reader is introduced to the contrasting perspectives of an old man and a young, impulsive individual at a marina. The old man is laden with memories of past tragedies connected to the lake's dangerous waters, warning the young man against his reckless ambition to cross it during perilous conditions. Conflict arises between the generations as the youth dismisses the older man's concerns, embodying youthful defiance. This opening effectively sets the tone for broader themes of life, consequence, and identity threaded throughout the rest of the collection, hinting at the deeper explorations of human aspiration and folly. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30874/30874-h/images/coverpage1.jpg en Fiction Short stories, Canadian PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 145628 143468 2024-09-13T07:27:35.717291 2023-09-13T12:10:10.706081 text/html text/html 138889 2010-01-06T09:50:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 89330 2010-01-06T09:51:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 95468 2024-09-13T07:27:38.487255 application/epub+zip 97594 2024-09-13T07:27:36.215265 application/epub+zip 97596 2024-09-13T07:27:35.875325 application/epub+zip 149826 2024-09-13T07:27:40.453229 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 139029 2024-09-13T07:27:38.285262 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 138313 2022-09-14T08:53:59.355663 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 131082 131075 2024-09-13T07:27:35.483245 2023-09-13T12:10:10.508110 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 132319 2010-01-06T09:50:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 55576 2010-01-06T09:51:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 132310 2010-01-06T09:50:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 55548 2010-01-06T09:51:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20257 2024-09-13T07:27:40.582233 application/rdf+xml 15473 2024-09-13T07:27:36.088267 image/jpeg 2841 2024-09-13T07:27:36.049283 image/jpeg 90340 2024-09-13T07:27:35.733260 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog