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The Viner Dimension

Tom Graves

A simple-seeming bequest sends Alan on an exploration that turns steadily stranger at every turn: "Weird politics. Weird plant-things. Weird battles where nobody dies."

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Alan is bequeathed the contents of an old farm-house. As he explores the house, he discovers hints that something odd has been happening there, with objects and incidents that just don't make sense.

When a demolition-order is placed on the house, he faces a race against time to rescue as much as he can before everything is destroyed. But when the diggers come to demolish the house, things turn a whole lot stranger, challenging our everyday notions of what is real and what is not.

From what he's found from the house, and other clues that arrive from elsewhere, Alan slowly pieces together a picture of the shadowy world of the Commonwealth and the Viner Codex. It's a world of "weird politics, weird plant-things, weird battles in which nobody dies" - a world that exists in parallel to our own, yet also intersects with it in subtle yet seemingly-unpredictable ways.

For Alan, this becomes a quest to explore if, and how, to incorporate more of the Commonwealth into his own life - and into our real-world lives too.

Set in the recent past in rural England, this blog-like story provides a first-person introduction to the bewildering world of the Viner Codex.

For more details on the story and its storyworld, see the Viner Codex website at http://vinercodex.com .

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Tom Graves

Tom Graves is probably best-known as a writer on subjects in the 'alternative' domains, such as dowsing (water-divining), earth-mysteries research and the relationship between science, technology and magic. Yet he has also done extensive research and writing on a wide range of other themes, including business-models, personal-development and gender-issues. The common theme in all of his work is explorations of how people learn new skills - the development of sensemaking, decision-making, judgement and awareness in discovering new capabilities for and of themselves.

For more information on Tom and his work, visit his personal website http://tomgraves.org or his more business-oriented weblog at http://weblog.tetradian.com . 

Contents

Table of Contents

Where to start?

Lawyer’s letter

Bequest

A good-year house

Into the kitchen

Viner Codex

Spinning-wheel

Newspapers and title

Two photographs

Diggers

The house doesn’t exist

Title-deed

Forensics, and fraud

Council Has Decided

No time to waste

Tales from the farm-lads

Bagged and tagged

Bathroom

Study

Library

Conservatory

Upstairs

Uniforms

Bathroom, grown

All the way up to eleven

Paddy Mac

What have we lost?

Midnight? Already?

A different world

A world we’ve lost

The Frenchman’s journal - Flyleaf

The Frenchman’s journal - Tuesday 11th April

  1. evening: Hotel Royal George, Harwich

The Frenchman’s journal - Wednesday 12th April

  1. mid morning: railway station, Colchester
  2. early afternoon: railway station, Norwich
  3. evening, before repast: Victoria Inn, Holkham

The Frenchman’s journal - Thursday 13th April, first entry

  1. past midnight: Victoria Inn, Holkham

The Frenchman’s journal - Thursday 13th April, second entry

  1. breakfast: Victoria Inn

The Frenchman’s journal - 13th April, third entry

  1. evening: Victoria Inn

The Frenchman’s journal - Investigation

  1. Investigator’s report

A different kind of different

The one big clue

The house is still here!

Time’s up

Irreplaceable

House on the defensive

It’s gone

It may even be enough

Those three themes

Nice trick

Hard not to be cynical

It’s still only fragments

This is huge

I want the real version

A matter of life and death

He didn’t steal enough?

Debtor’s prison

Tithes and religion

Taxes

Another fine mess?

A sort of scorecard

Still as weird as ever

Last straw

It won’t accept any change

These coin-things

A world-changing moment

Chance and the Institution

The other bit that matters

Vinery

Still angry about that

Back to vinery

Memory-palace

Looks a bit like magic

Big difference

“I relate, therefore I am”

Extract from a book

Keep out of the fights

A Schrödinger’s Cat of a place

War is a breach of the peace

The causes of war

Quakers and Diggers

Persecuted, trashed, but still make it work

Their not-Empire

A protection-racket that protected

Equality is infectious

He has a lot to answer for…

Dependence on dependence

I’m not alone

This stuff is real

That leaky-many-worlds idea

Keep the craziness at bay

Pure panic on her part

Inside the binder-boxes

Elizabeth’s question

Get the word out

Pretend that it’s fiction

The story continues…

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