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Originally Posted by issybird
My own assumption was along the lines of worlds existing simultaneously and the drug altering perception (although not the reality). I know that's not what du Maurier said and I know it's got just as many holes, but it worked for me.
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At the end of Chapter 14, Dick thinks to himself:
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There was no past, no present. We are all bound, one to the other, through time and eternity.... This would be the ultimate meaning of the experiment, surely, that by moving about in time death was destroyed....To me, it proved that the past was living still, that we were all participants, all witnesses.
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For me, the reason that Magnus and Dick see the same people when they take the drug, is because they are in that place, where this story with its strong passions and violence was played out. The landscape itself was a player in the story, and of course its changes made it dangerous to walk through when “lost to the world”.
The Cornish landscape was very important to du Maurier, and something she cared about greatly. One of her non-fiction books is called
Vanishing Cornwall.