The Medusa Frequency Author:Russell Hoban "Alone in London, Herman Orff writes comic books in the afternoons. Through night into morning he looks for a third novel in the dancing green phosphors of his computer screen while he listens to sweet shortwave voices from far away singing words he cannot understand. — "Hoping for a little help with his brain waves he undergoes an elec... more »trical head-zapping treatment and the next morning finds the head of Orpheus in the low-tide mud near Putney Bridge. Between them they try to work out what went wrong between Orpheus and Eurydice and Herman and his lost love, Luise von Himmelbett. Life, meanwhile, doesn't stand still: Herman falls in love with Melanie Falsepercy and explores the nights and days of past and present in a ship across the North Sea, a museum and a hotel in the Hague, the remembered olive trees of Paxos, and the Orpheus-haunted streets and underground of London."
- the two opening paragraphs of The Medusa Frequency.« less