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The Absolute at Large
Chapters (30)
- I: The Advertisement 0:00
- II: The Karburator 10:38
- III: Pantheism 22:11
- IV: God in the Cellar 35:21
- V: Bishop Linda 47:47
- VI: The Board-Meeting 1:02:21
- VII: Developments 1:14:20
- VIII: The Dredge 1:23:30
- IX: The Ceremony 1:40:20
- X: Saint Ellen 1:52:45
- XI: The First Blow Struck 2:04:15
- XII: Doctor Blahous 2:17:35
- XIII: The Chronicler’s Apology 2:27:51
- XIV: The Land of Plenty 2:38:27
- XV: Disaster 2:54:10
- XVI: In the Mountains 3:08:17
- XVII: The Hammer and Star 3:20:37
- XVIII: In the Night Editor’s Room 3:29:23
- XIX: The Process of Canonization 3:40:55
- XX: St. Kilda 3:50:11
- XXI: The Telegram 4:04:36
- XXII: The Old Patriot 4:15:22
- XXIII: The Augsburg Imbroglio 4:28:15
- XXIV: The Napoleon of the Mountain Brigade 4:41:44
- XXV: The So-Called Greatest War 4:51:13
- XXVI: The Battle of Hradec Králové 5:00:56
- XXVII: A Coral Island in the Pacific 5:11:13
- XXVIII: At Seven Cottages 5:20:12
- XXIX: The Last Battle 5:28:25
- XXX: The End of Everything 5:37:16
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The Czech writer Karel Čapek wrote his novel Továrna na absolutno in 1922. It was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1927 as The Absolute at Large. The novel is a satirical piece of science fiction, and starts with the invention of an “atomic engine” in the future year 1943 which can convert matter directly into energy. Such engines can operate machinery for months from a single bucket of coal. But the inventor quickly discovers that his engine has an unfortunate side-effect: It generates pure divinity as a waste product. The consequences of the wide-spread adoption of the new engines therefore gives rise to unexpected complications in human society. The novel is full of sardonic but incisive comments on society, capitalism and religion.