Dec 19, 2009

The Course of the Heart | The Course of the Heart

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The Plot

While at school, the unnamed narrator and two fellow university students, Pam Stuyvesant and Lucas Medlar, take part in a magical ritual under the guidance of Yaxley. Somehow they touch another realm, the Pleroma, and find themselves unable to escape its effects throughout the rest of their lives. Each one brings back a familiar. For Pam it is a ghostly white couple forever engaged in sexual embrace, for Lucas it is a monkeylike creature who constantly disrupts his life and surroundings, and for the narrator, apparently more blessed, it is the sight and smell of...

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