Hello
Gentle Reader
David
Mitchell, the English writer, known for his novels “Cloud Atlas,” “Number9Dream,”
and “The Bone Clocks,” is the second and latest author to deposit a manuscript
into the Future Library art project, which has been conceived by the Scottish
artist Katie Paterson.
David
Mitchell is the second writer to deposit a manuscript into the project, with
his manuscript titled “From Me Flows What You Call Time,” which follows the
first writer to deposit a manuscript into the project Margaret Atwood, and her
manuscript titled “Scribbler Moon.”
David
Mitchell described the experience of writing the manuscript, as rather
liberating, stating:
“because
I won’t be around to take the consequences of this being good, or bad ... But
I’m sandwiched between Margaret Atwood, and no doubt some shit-hot other writer
[yet to be revealed]. So it better be good. What a historic fool of epochal
proportions I’d look, if they opened it in 2114 and it wasn’t any good.”
Yet
the Future Library project has been praised for its glimmer, and its hope, in
which it offers the idea, that humanity will be around in 100 years, to enjoy
and read the seal away manuscripts. Everywhere one looks today, the end is
sounded, and the time to act is being referred to as now; by not acting
humanity and the earth are doomed to orbit the sun, as a simple dead husk,
deprived of life. On the contrary though, the Future Library shows a more positive
thought towards the possibility of a future, which is not deprived of humanity.
Here’s
hoping this time capsule of writers, and their manuscripts are good, and the
future generations who will be able to read them, will also enjoy them, and
have an idea of the past. Though in the words of Margaret Atwood, the project
is also a bit narcissistic when the question is proposed to writers: “Will you
be read in 100 years?” Her answer now: “Yes.”
Bravo
and congratulations to David Mitchell, to being chosen to add a manuscript to
this art project, who along with Margaret Atwood as it stands, will be read in
100 years.
Thank-you
For Reading Gentle Reader
Take
Care
And
As Always
Stay
Well Read
M.
Mary
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