PART TWO is about Everard in Bactra in 209 BC but each chapter about him there/then is preceded by a chapter about an "earlier" event elsewhere/when. Two such chapters recount conversations between Everard and Wanda, in 1987 AD and 1988 AD, respectively. When Wanda telephones to change a dinner date, Everard time travels to the changed date.
PART FOUR is about Wanda in Beringia in 13,212 BC. Two chapters recount conversations with Everard in 1990. The first is narrated from Everard's pov. The second, which is the concluding chapter of PART FOUR, seems to be entirely objective narration unless it is slightly Wanda's pov. She is awed, she wonders and she hugs herself as if in a glacier wind. (The wind, yet again.)
PART SIX is equally about both characters with strong input from Keith Denison whom we saw before in "Brave To Be A King."
This second post of today might also be the last. I am feeling unaccountably tired and am also drawn back to other reading - which often has resonances. Earlier, I set off to walk across town to meditate in a side chapel of the Cathedral but was diverted to a massive and impressive exhibition on Islam in the Town Hall. Lancaster manifests its diversity yet again. Other members of my family were at the ballet at the Grand Theatre. It's all happening and all that.
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