The Dean's Watch
A Christian Fiction, Historical, Christian book. He knocked his pipe out. His paper rustled to the floor and...
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- Pages: 350 pages
- ISBN: 9780340005675 / 0
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He knocked his pipe out. His paper rustled to the floor and his spectacles slid own his nose. His hands, red and shiny, lay relaxed on his knee. He abandoned himself to the quietness and the warmth of sun and fire. Autumn was a strange paradoxical time of the year. It was the season when he was happiest and yet it was the season when he was most vulnerable and most aware, and that was not always a happiness. Yet he liked autumn. Elizabeth Goudge, The Dean's Watch Isaac's humility did not discriminate between man and man and scarcely between man and watch. In his thought men were much like their watches. The passage of time was marked as clearly upon a man's face as upon that of his watch and the marvelous mechanism of his body could be as cruelly disturbed by evil hazards. The outer case varied, gunmetal or gold, carter's corduroy or bishop's broadcloth, but the tick of the pulse was the same, the beating of life that gave such a heartbreaking illusion of eternity. Elizabeth Goudge, The Dean's Watch Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would never understand it. He took the piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at that too. Faith in God. God. A word he had always refused. But the Dean had said, put the word love in its place. Elizabeth Goudge, The Dean's Watch
I loved this and yet I couldn't tell you why. It's a gentle story, not much happens and yet the characters are so vividly written that you can't help but enjoy spending time with them. The first person we meet is Isaac Peabody, a watchmaker, who goes about the city winding the clocks of his customers. The other main character is Adam,... The Deans Watch, is another fairytale type book asking the simple question: What would happen if we went out of our comfort zone and loved those around us? Very realistic because its never easy to love those who are fearful or angry. But like a fairytale because rarely does everyone respond in kind in real life. But, I liked that the... This is my second Elizabeth Goudge read, and I am noticing her propensity to create characters that have disfigurements or oddities. Instead of making them victims or underdogs, she is able to magnify the strengths that each character has developed as a result of their suffering. The parson suffering from dementia, the ugly dean, the...
