Unperformed Experiments Have No Results (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Janette Turner Hospital
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Ontario, Canada, and Queensland, Australia
- Principal Characters: Philippa, Brian
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Courage, Science or scientists, Friendship, 1980’s, Fear, Missing persons, Canada or Canadians, Rivers or waterways, Sick persons, Australia or Australians, Survival
- Locales: Ontario, Canada, Queensland, Australia
The Story
“Unperformed Experiments Have No Results” is made up of several seemingly unrelated events, the sequence of which the narrator no longer knows. The events include Philippa's sitting on her dock observing a man rowing a canoe upstream, her memory of climbing a waterfall in Queensland with her friend Brian during their last year in high school, a dream in which she sees the body of Brian on a submerged suspension bridge at the end of her dock, and her discovery that Brian is ill and has disappeared. A fifth “event” is Philippa's reading historical accounts of...
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