She takes pride in the craft and the dignity of making beautiful books, and she then keeps them safely locked up in her storeroom.Įmmett tries to understand, but is perplexed. She tells him that he is a “binder born”. How I imagined Seredith (art by Vlado Ondo) Why would his parents want him to apprentice in the making of ‘ books‘ when they are so condemned and despised by them? The decision to send him there confounds Emmett. No longer really strong enough to labour on the family’s farm, he is shipped off to the remote marshlands to become an apprentice binder. He has been suffering terribly from a mysterious illness. Next we discover a slightly older, teenage Emmett. He is punished and has his book taken away from him and buried. As soon as I saw the writing on the pages I understood: this was lots of pages all squashed together - like letters, lots of letters, only in a better box - and a story that went on and on.” He takes his treasure home. “the book fell open as he passed it to me and I couldn’t give it back.
At first he thinks it is a pretty box, then he realizes that the box is filled with paper that is covered in words.
Part I – A farmer’s son, named Emmett Farmer goes to the country fair and uses his few shillings to purchase a beautiful object that he has never seen before. It was also a time when families who felt shame of their loved ones would either put them away in lunatic asylums, or, send them to binders to be ‘bound’. So deplorable that the average ‘good’ citizen would not have them in their homes. An imaginary time when the annual winter holiday was called “The Turning” and a time when books were forbidden. The time is sometime in the far Anglo-Saxon past.
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