Couleur locale “Le Petit Bureau" & "Along the Tideline”
meta-page for Surrendering—Prologue & Chapter 8
Play this at the novel’s beginning.
And play it while Denise and Marie-Rose take their walk together along the tideline. Marie-Rose reflects on this moment in the summer of 1901, long after she traveled back again to her own time in 2021:
I’ve always been struck by how precisely things unfold. You can appear aimless—drifting, improvising—and still move with perfect precision toward your fate.
Who’s steering, then? Is it really you? Or is that what being yourself means: to be guided, straight as an arrow, without even knowing?
Honestly, we were just meandering. That’s what I thought, anyway—while walking straight into what was waiting for me.
Title song of a very different movie, although… ?
