The Degradation Noted (eBook)

A Keeper's Record of the Flaw in the Light and the Failure of the Stone

Kissan Thorne (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
115 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-110718-2 (ISBN)

Infos

For five days, the fog has not lifted. A lighthouse keeper, bound by regulation and ritual, maintains his watch. His world is the rhythmic clack-thump of the clockwork, the ten-second bellow of the horn, and the precise, immaculate entries in the white logbook. This is the official record. It is a story of perfection. But the tower is failing. A drip has begun, sounding a high, metallic PING into a bucket. Rust blooms on the iron. The mortar between the great stones has gone soft, weeping water. And high in the lantern, a tiny, unfixable flaw sealed in the great lens mirrors the keeper's own hidden record: a second, black ledger where the truth of the tower's decay is written. Haunted by the memory of a wreck five years prior the Aris and disturbed by a scratching sound at his window, the keeper is trapped. He is a man caught between the perfect, official truth he must maintain and the structural, all-consuming failure that is climbing the stairs. A formal, claustrophobic, and intensely psychological narrative, The White Log is a minute-by- minute account of a consciousness under pressure, a study of a man obsessively polishing the brass while the foundation crumbles.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-110718-6 / 0001107186
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-110718-2 / 9780001107182