![]() ![]() ![]() Much of Dick’s internal monologue is spent trying to work out everything that has happened since his last visit, which makes the past events feel very far removed even though Dick is watching them happen. Though he only sees snatches of their lives, he’s absorbed by their drama. Touching any living creature-past or present-vaults him back to the current day.Įach time Dick takes the drug, he observes the same group of people, but a week might pass in his time while months elapse in the past. This form of time travel is laden with pitfalls because he might blunder across a present-day road while walking hundreds of years in the past. The drug is explained with a few vague words about memory and sends Dick’s mind to fourteenth-century Cornwall while his body remains in the present. ![]() Daphne du Maurier + time travel? Yes, please! Despite its flashy premise, The House on the Strand is primarily a slow-burning character study more in line with My Cousin Rachel than Jamaica Inn or Rebecca.ĭick Young’s friend, Magnus, asks his assistance in testing a drug. ![]()
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