Peaslee and Alice's Rupture

The Colour Out of Space

This flow traces the separation between Nathaniel Peaslee and Alice Keezar as the altered personality makes their marriage impossible to sustain.

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A Shared Life A Shared Life from "The Colour Out of Space". Before the Amnesia A Marriage and Family Nathaniel and Alice build a household in Arkham and raise three children together.

A Shared Life from "The Colour Out of Space". Before the Amnesia A Marriage and Family Nathaniel and Alice build a household in Arkham and raise three children together.

Before the Amnesia A Marriage and Family Nathaniel and Alice build a household in Arkham and raise three children together. A Sudden Break The abrupt amnesia transforms an established marriage into an encounter with a person Alice does not recognise.

A Stranger in His Body A Stranger in His Body from "The Colour Out of Space". Familiar Form, Unknown Mind Changed Speech and Manner The awakened personality speaks awkwardly and pursues interests alien to Nathaniel’s former life.

A Stranger in His Body from "The Colour Out of Space". Familiar Form, Unknown Mind Changed Speech and Manner The awakened personality speaks awkwardly and pursues interests alien to Nathaniel’s former life.

Familiar Form, Unknown Mind Changed Speech and Manner The awakened personality speaks awkwardly and pursues interests alien to Nathaniel’s former life. Alice's Fear Alice interprets the change as the occupation of her husband’s body by an alien usurper.

The Marriage Ends The Marriage Ends from "The Colour Out of Space". Separation Becomes Law Legal Divorce Alice obtains a divorce while the altered personality still controls Nathaniel’s body.

The Marriage Ends from "The Colour Out of Space". Separation Becomes Law Legal Divorce Alice obtains a divorce while the altered personality still controls Nathaniel’s body.

Separation Becomes Law Legal Divorce Alice obtains a divorce while the altered personality still controls Nathaniel’s body. A Lasting Cost The amnesia damages a family relationship in ways that cannot be repaired when his original consciousness returns.

Return Without Reunion Return Without Reunion from "The Colour Out of Space". The Husband Comes Back Original Awareness Nathaniel’s ordinary self returns, but Alice refuses to see him.

Return Without Reunion from "The Colour Out of Space". The Husband Comes Back Original Awareness Nathaniel’s ordinary self returns, but Alice refuses to see him.

The Husband Comes Back Original Awareness Nathaniel’s ordinary self returns, but Alice refuses to see him. Identity Cannot Undo Loss The restoration of his mind does not restore the shared life that existed before the exchange.

An Absent Family Past An Absent Family Past from "The Colour Out of Space". Memory and Estrangement Reconstructing the Lost Years Nathaniel learns about his altered conduct through documents and other people’s accounts.

An Absent Family Past from "The Colour Out of Space". Memory and Estrangement Reconstructing the Lost Years Nathaniel learns about his altered conduct through documents and other people’s accounts.

Memory and Estrangement Reconstructing the Lost Years Nathaniel learns about his altered conduct through documents and other people’s accounts. Family Beyond Reach The unhealed separation makes his investigation personal: he seeks not only an explanation, but an account of the self who displaced him.

1896 to May 1908

May 1908 onward

1910

After September 1913

During Peaslee's later research