The Blast That Tears The Skies (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
No pirates at sea to make them a prey, for the King enjoys thes word again… Let faction and pride be ow laid aside, that truth and peace may reign, Let every one mend, and there is an end, for the King enjoys hsi own again. ~ Anon., A Country Song Intituled The Restoration (1661) A sudden rumble of thunder shook the windows of Sayes Court at Deptford. ‘Curious,’ said the house’s owner, the thin and aquiline John Evelyn, opening a window and looking up to a cloudless blue sky. ‘Most curious. Upon a day such as this, whither comes the thunder?’ His friend Lord Brouncker looked up from the adjacent table and the plate of sturgeon upon it, already considerably diminished, before his dainty hand descended instead upon a large slice of venison pie. ‘It is a time of signs and wonders in the heavens,’ Brouncker said, ‘beginning with the comet, and as all know, however much we men of science analyse them and predict their paths, the truth remains that comets bring inexplicable events and disasters.
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