BOOK II · FICTIONAL BRIDGE · LUC ARDEN
The Lost Chapter
The Lost Chapter shifts the pace of the story without leaving its characters behind. Mike and Jane ask whether the Libertalia idea might acquire a practical shape inside their fictional world. The central question is no longer only how an idea begins, but how it could endure.
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A vision meets difficult questions
Jane asks about opposition, resources, institutions and the safety of the people involved. Her doubts are essential to the book: they give voice to questions that the reader might ask of any seemingly impossible undertaking.
The Eleven Rings provide the narrative structure, beginning with people and moving towards knowledge, organisation and the foundations of a community. These are elements of the fiction, not instructions to establish a real state.
Where The Salvation tells the story of an idea taking hold, The Lost Chapter becomes a bridge to the much larger social thought experiment developed in the three volumes of The Way to Liberty.
This is a work of fiction. The extended social thought experiment is developed in the three volumes of Book III, The Way to Liberty.
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