"I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth."
What is Memory & loss?
"A virus like an avenging angel"
"Such a perfect agent of death could only be divine."
This shakespearean play is performed by The Travelling Symphony across the post-collapse world
This actress was Arthur Leander's second wife and is the mother of his only child
Who is Elizabeth?
"Hell is the absence of the people you long for"
What is Connection?
"No more diving into pools[...] No more ball games[...] No more porch lights [...] No more trains[...]"
What is repetition
"People want what was best about the world."
Who is Dieter?
This snowy city was a witness of Arthur's tragic demise in the first chaper.
What is Toronto?
In the post-collapsed world, Kirsten and this character scavenge abandoned homes for resources
Who is August?
"That kind of insanity's contagious."
What is Survival?
Metaphor
"I repent nothing."
Who is Miranda?
Who is Dr. Eleven?
Before Miranda dated Arthur, she was dating this abusive mexican artist
Who is Pablo
"It's the work itself that's important to me... not whether I publish it or not."
What is culture + art?
"It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape."
What is Juxtaposition?
"It was exactly like waking up from a dream."
Who is Captain Lonagan?
What is St. Deborah by the water?
Who is Frank?
"No more certainty of surviving a scratch on ones hand"
What is Change?
"Love is like the lions tooth"
What is intertextuality / allusion?
"Why did they die instead of us?"
Who is 'The Boy'?
Who is Luili?
The name of Clark Thompson's lover who was left behind in the collapse