Lineages
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Bring any book to the centre: what it draws on is to its left, what draws on it to its right.
Of its time
It draws on
The title comes from Timon's speech on the universal thief, 'the moon's an arrant thief, / And her pale fire she snatches from the sun'. Fitting for a novel in which a commentator steals a poet's work to tell his own story, and in which Timon itself turns up, mistranslated.
No later work in the atlas draws on it yet.
The whole web
Every line in the atlas, by place or by time. Tap a work to bring it to the centre.