Frobisher eventually composes his original piece, the Cloud Atlas Sextet, which Vyvyan attempts to steal and claim as his own, leading Frobisher to shoot and injure the old man. He is inspired by the journal kept by Adam Ewing, and sends a series of letters to his lover, Rufus Sixsmith. After returning to San Francisco, Ewing and his wife Tilda join the abolitionist movement.ġ936, Cambridge: Robert Frobisher is a bisexual/homosexual (we aren’t really sure) English composer who takes an apprenticeship under the famous composer Vyvyan Ayrs. Just before Ewing is about to die, Autua saves him from the doctor. Henry Goose slowly poisons Ewing with the intent of killing him for his gold, under the pretense of treating him for a parasite.

After they set sail, Ewing finds a stowaway slave, Autua, and begins to help keep him hidden. Georgette nicknamed it Timbo’s Turd.1849, Pacific Islands: The setting of the first plot is in the South Pacific, where attorney Adam Ewing arranges a business meeting with plantation owner Gilles Horrox. 'I, too, have a birthmark, below my left armpit, but no lover ever compared it to a comet. Oh, most o’ Pa’s yarnin’s was jus’ musey duck fartin’ an’ in his loonsome old age he even b’liefed Meronym the Prescient was his presh b’loved Sonmi, yay, he ’sisted it, he said he knowed it all by birthmarks an’ comets’n’all.' 'Zachry my old pa was a wyrd buggah, I won’t naysay it now he’s died. A sort o’ tiny hand mark it were, yay, a head o’ six streaks strandin’ off, pale ’gainst her dark skin, an’ I curioed why I’d never seen it b’fore.' 'Lady Moon lit a whoahsome wyrd birthmark jus’ b’low my friend’s shoulder blade as she sleeped fin’ly.

Hae-Joo Im made xactly the same remark, curiously. Here, between my collarbone and shoulder blade. Would you show it to my orison, just as a curio? Ma-Leu-Da 108 called it “Sonmi 451’s stain.” We do not, so mine always caused me embarrassment in the steamer.

Your birthmark? I didn’t know fabricants have birthmarks. I was fritened of incriminating myself, but only my birthmark provoked any passing comment. Birthmarks can look like anything you choose, not only comets.' But it is undeniably shaped like a comet. 'Luisa shunts these aside to get a clearer view of a birthmark between her shoulder blade and collarbone. 'She plays with that birthmark in the hollow of my shoulder, the one you said resembles a comet-can’t abide the woman dabbling with my skin.' I don't see anything about Adam Ewing or Zachry having a birthmark: Below are the characters that have birthmarks (I think).

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