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| Author | Richard Bach |
|---|---|
| Subject | Metaphysics,Alternate worlds |
| Published | 1988,William Morrow |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 400 |
| ISBN | 044020562X |
One is a 1988 novel byRichard Bach[1] about what could happen in analternate world. The characters are based on Bach and his wife,Leslie Parrish.
The author Richard and his wife Leslie have come under a spell ofquantum physics. As a result, they find themselves in an alternate world, existing in different incarnations at the same time. First it is as if they were themselves, but living sixteen years in the past, on the day that they first met. In this alternate version of their lives they do not wed, and neither finds the happiness that they've achieved in their actual life. In another universe they find a world without war, where both Leslie and Richard are pilots in nonviolent war games. In a trip to the past they meetAttila the Hun. In another world they meet a saint who has discovered the meaning of life, but immediately burns the evidence, knowing that it would only cause division and ultimately, holy war. They meet the spirit who gives Richard his writing inspiration. They travel to a world where Richard is a bitter, dying man; a world where Leslie has left Richard; and a world where Leslie has died in a plane crash and Richard contemplates suicide.
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