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Author: (English) Lodge (Lodge, D.) Author, Pu Long Translated
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: These days, she lived a double life, feeling that it made her a more interesting and complex person. Silsbury is dotted with factories, warehouse complexes stretch endlessly, roads crisscross, winding, covered in overgrown railway cuttings and dilapidated canals that resemble Martian patterns. Thus, this wasteland itself is like a shadow country, the dark side of Lumbry, unknown territory to those who have been nurtured by the light of cultural and academic enlightenment in university. Of course, the reverse is true for those working in Pumblechook: the university and everything it represents are in the shadows—strange, alien, mysterious, and a bit intimidating. These two regions have their own values, their own main themes, their own language and behavior, everything is vastly different. Hopping back and forth across the boundary lines between them, Rowena felt like a spy; and like spies are prone to, she occasionally suffered from waves of suspicion: whether justice was on her side. These days, she lived a double life, feeling that it made her a more interesting and complex person. Silsbury is dotted with factories, warehouse complexes stretch endlessly, roads crisscross, winding, covered in overgrown railway cuttings and dilapidated canals that resemble Martian patterns. Thus, this wasteland itself is like a shadow country, the dark side of Lumbry, unknown territory to those who have been nurtured by the light of cultural and academic enlightenment in university. Of course, the reverse is true for those working in Pumblechook: the university and everything it represents are in the shadows—strange, alien, mysterious, and a bit intimidating. These two regions have their own values, their own main themes, their own language and behavior, everything is vastly different. Hopping back and forth across the boundary lines between them, Rowena felt like a spy; and like spies are prone to, she occasionally suffered from waves of suspicion: whether justice was on her side.