Finished

Yesterday I finished the second reading of 'Between Times' and have a better grasp of it than the first one gave.

The title is most appropriate: it isn't 'time' but 'times'.  There are several 'times' through which Drum lived. (Sometimes he was Ben and sometimes Drum; in the series he started out as Ben, then for a while was 'Bear' and later Drum.

In the second book he was pretty consistently 'Drum'.  He seems to have been too young for the war and later too old.  Of course Henry had very clearly a life time hatred of War;  he and I met at the Quaker meeting in Greenville, a 'peace group'.

In Between Times (290) we find both Ben and Drum; Ben returns from the war and goes to 'University' while Drum (from an earlier generation) moves to Asheton.

Later in 290 Millicent meets a ghostlike figure she had known in former years.

After reading 'BT' twice I've come to feel that it's primarily a fantasy with many appearances of people after death to those who experienced love from and for them. In later posts I mean to put emphasis on those episodes.