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On April 17, 1912 -- ironically, only two days after the sinking of the Titanic -- a figure known only as Pilgrim tries to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree. When he is found five hours later, his heart miraculously begins to beat again. Pilgrim, it seems, can never die.... read more
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- Mister Pilgrim: Add a description of this character.
- Kessler
- Emma
- Mister Forster
- Doctor Furtwangler
- Teresa
- Leonardo
- Lady Quartermaine
- Carl Gustav
- Jung
- Sybil Quartermaine
- Dora Henkel
- Carl Gustay
- Angelo
- Gherardini
- Phoebe Peebles
- Perro
- Blavinskeya
- Bleuler
- Herr Doktor
- Mona Lisa
- Parsons
- Lotte
- Whistler
- Johannes
- Wilde
- Archie Menken
- Clinic
- Don Pedro
- Haeckel
- Madame
- David
- James
- Symes
- Greene
- Cornelia
- Mrs Matheson
- Josef
- Freud
- Picaro
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“There are some whose experience of life is so far removed from our own that we call them mad. This is mere convenience. We call them so in order to relieve ourselves of taking responsibility for their place in the human community.”
Dr. Carl Jung -
“I have prayed fervently to be relieved. Not on my knees. I never pray on my knees, I find it undignified and childish. If God is truly there, I suspect He prefers to meet us face to face and eye to eye. This has always been my way with Him, and I think it has always been His way with me. But if the situation warrants, I shall go on my knees at once.”
Pilgrim -
“'I cannot for the life of me understand why you have a problem with this.''She was a charlatan.''She was a Catholic - that's what you mean. She was a Catholic and she believed. And you are a lapsed Protestant and you believe in nothing. Your basic problem, my dear one, is that you hate and distrust anyone - anyone - who believes in God. And maybe anyone who believes in anything.”
Emma Jung to Carl
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She was exquisite—childlike—eternally innocent. To be with her even briefly was to be returned to those moments in childhood when every blade of grass is a revelation. The Moon need only be reached for to be achieved.
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What he knows, he knows. What he does not know, he knows he does not know. This is a sure sign of genius: not to be afraid of your own ignorance.
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No one can tell the truth about themselves. It is quite impossible. Something must always be justified. Always, something must be justified. We do each other dreadful harm because we refuse to justify the foibles of others—only our own.
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First Sentence edit
Inside the front doors of the Burgholzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, a nursed named Dora Henkel and an orderly whose name was Kessler were waiting to greet a new patient and his companion.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Timothy Findley (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0002242583
Page Count: 485
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0002242583
Page Count: 485
Awards edit
- Giller Prize (Finalist, 1999, Shortlist)
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- Dewey: 813.54
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