Jan 4, 2010

Arcadia | Valentine Coverly

The oldest of the modern Coverly children, Valentine is a postgraduate student at Oxford, studying biology, mathematics, and, recently, chaos theory. Although he is capable of some dry humor (he jokes, for example, that Hannah is his fiance, and he takes his pet turtle "Lightning" out for a ‘‘run’’), Valentine is mainly a serious-minded, analytical individual. He draws his inspiration from the wonders of science, and finds Bernard's pursuit of Lord Byron's history "trivial,'' because, he says, personalities don't matter, it's the knowledge they produce that is...