Little, Big: One Constant Small Push (51)

Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, c. 1766. First of all, I love that there are children in this picture! Secondly, an orrery would usually be at this sort of scale (or perhaps a little bigger)—Henry Cloud’s is unusually large.

It’s day fifty-one of the Little, Big slow read. Click here for yesterday’s post, and here for full introductory details.

Today we were reading a section from Chapter One, Book Six: from Something He Could Steal up to and including Caravans.

Auberon learns about Harvey Cloud, and plots to include more family stories in A World Elsewhere. Smoky tries to fix the orrery, and Hawksquill and Russell Eigenblick begin to drift apart.