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Gethin Bell has cast bells for four hundred years, each with one deliberate flaw cut into the metal, and each flaw decides the single thing that bell will ever be allowed to say.
- ~175 min (estimated)
- 38655 words
- 29 scenes
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
30 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
The town has a bell for fire and a bell for the hour and a bell for the school, and after nineteen years of subscriptions it has four hundred and six pounds for a fourth: one to be heard at Ardlow Bottom, three thousand four hundred paces down the valley, when the Corrach comes up. It cannot be cast, because the Casting Book has never once in four hundred years been able to record what a bell is for. A hill town casts bells with one deliberate flaw each, and the flaw decides what that bell is permitted to say for the rest of its life. Gethin Bell has raised four hundred and six pounds for a warning bell for the river, and cannot cast it, because its leather Casting Book has a ruled column for every bell's flaw and a second ruled column for its purpose, and that column is blank on all eleven hundred and twelve entries. The antagonist is the book itself: an instrument in which a flaw can o
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- Consensual adult intimacy between two adults, off page; optional and refusable at every step.
- Institutional pressure, procedural argument, and the threat of a flood; no injury is depicted.
- Death of unnamed off-screen characters is referred to in the past tense only.
- Strong language in the counting house and the shed.
- No gore, no violence, no coercion that is rewarded.
- No one in this novel is granted anything, forgiven anything or promoted for refusing a choice.
- No audio of any kind: the novel is text only.
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