ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Literary Theory, Cattle, Defamiliarization
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The spin and the archway: a new world. Science and religion: making sense of doomsday. Jason becomes the key source of where tyler gets information, and we are with tyler. Novel takes known familiar world and makes it strange and new. Specific date for the start of the novel. Present time of when tyler is telling the story. He is in fact, four billion years into the future. Tyler constructs this narrative altering present and looking back to working through the events of the past. Billion years is the actual date of the solar system. Wilson establishes (from a chapter heading) this sense of difference from our known familiar world. Not just moving back and forth present and past, but also conflation. While on earth, time is for the most part our time. There is a difference between his presence, relative present and past. She was silent for a few seconds more.
