Five Thousand Years of Beige is a experimental literary fiction book that follows a vast narrative charting different generations of families across the globe, from thousands of years in our past, through to our potential future. It follows the stories of a great love, a tragedy whose devastation ripples through the ages, and a dark and sinister plot which may eventually be our salvation, or our undoing. Ultimately I want to create a project which is a distillation of all that it means to be human, following the ancient traditions of mathematical codes and puzzles embedded in literature, as well as the evolution of language and communication, and of the changes in our society throughout history.
With the funds raised, I will With the funds raised, I will subsidize my writing including the physical costs and time commitment, fund research on the language and dialect of different eras , take trips to meet with academics to discuss scientific and factual concerns, as well as professional fees, and fund third party research.