Cloud Atlas incense burner finally come to devour them

finally come to devour them

by American audiences since the 1930's

and the true essence of the West

treachery and lies

Copper tarnishes easily and all charging plates are expected to tarnish

Cloud Atlas incense burner finally come to devour themA reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between the wars Belgium; a high minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each others echoes down the corridor