The Masters of Atlantis

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The Masters of Atlantis The Masters of Atlantis

by Charles Portis

Genre: Literature

Published: 2011

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This unforgettable novel centers on Lamar Jimmerson, a man in the front ranks of the modern-day Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book crammed with Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, and extended alchemical metaphors, the Codex Pappus said to be the sacred Gnomonic text. Soon he is basking in the lore of lost Atlantis, convinced that his mission on earth is to administer and expand the ranks of this noble brotherhood. Taking us through the entire New Cycle of Gnomonism through the publication of Jimmerson s own Gnomonic texts (among them Why I Am a Gnomon and 101 Gnomon Facts), through the scandalous schism that rocks the Gnomonic community, through Jimmerson s disastrous bid for the governorship of Indiana, to the fateful gathering of Gnomons in a mobile-home park in East Texas Masters of Atlantis is a cockeyed journey into an...

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