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everything was still clean. However she quickly discovers that too much knowledge about upcoming events tends to make things more complicated. Her relationship with Sverre cannot recommence from where they left off and she has trouble remembering which events are real and which are fictional in any given situation. Finally she decides that the only solution to let time flow normally is for her to first kill Jeyde and then herself.
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neither he nor anybody else can notice that there was a cut because everything that happened between the safe point and the cut is erased from their memories as it never had happened (and theoretically it hasn't happened indeed). He can't even be sure about any event whether it's the first time it's happening or not.
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This way Johanna gets the unique chance to outplay different variations of her relationship with Sverre, one of her students, as she can always correct a mistake that she has made. Another bonus she gets is in no need to spend time tidying up at home because she can always come back to a time when
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Jeyde compares his theory with films, where every second 24 still pictures are shown. If you happen to cut the time "tape" the world gets rewound to the previous secure point (which would be 23 days before the moment of the cut). The problem that Jeyde has encountered is that after the time cut
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experiment. Jeyde has discovered that he can put the time 23 days back. The background to the invention is that Jeyde perceives the time as split up into small sets, among which time stands calm.
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who "opens up her mind" so after a time cut she'd be able to remember the destroyed time. When Johanna gets tired of being repeatedly sent by Jeyde back in time (since Jeyde sends back the entire
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This novel is a typical example of the third phase in Madsen's writing that's like most of his later works is set in the town of
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and not just Johanna he doesn't need Johanna's participation or agreement to send her back) she manages to lock Jeyde up in a
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and wants to leave time travelling behind her, but then she suddenly realises how much freedom it can give her.
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Johanna who is a lector at a Danish university gets involved by her colleague professor Jeyde in a
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To be able to understand the possibilities of his invention better, Jeyde sends Johanna to a
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and has several characters that also appear in his other books (
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Analysis of the third phase of Svend Aage Madsen's works
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Svend Aage Madsen
Danish
Novel
Gyldendal
1986
Denmark
ISBN
978-87-00-47524-3
OCLC
23378020
science fiction
Danish
modernist
Svend Aage Madsen
Aarhus
Johanna
Sverre
time travel
psychiatrist
Universe
psychiatric hospital
Analysis of the third phase of Svend Aage Madsen's works
Archived
Wayback Machine
Plot summary at scifisiden.dk (in Danish)
Archived
Wayback Machine
Categories
1986 novels

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