Back to that book meme

[karohemd]

I would really like to know which book the following line is from:
When he saw Jack Hare jump towards the fire, and the Practical Man brandishing the toasting-fork, Sir Isaac grabbed the strings of gravitational force that bound Jack to his destiny and PULLED
The user who entered it into the meme doesn't exist anymore...

Comments

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Given that both Jack Hare and the Practical Man appear in the cast list for the play version of Kit Williams' Masquerade, I assume it'd be that. (No idea where my copy is or I'd go and check.)

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Its not anything from the Baroque Cycle. I wonder if its from "Masquerade" by Kit Williams. It has both "Jack Hare" and Isaac Newton in it, and one of the paintings is entitled "The Practical Man".

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Damn. Others beat me to it. You're the right age but you were living in the wrong country at the time for this to have been significant in your childhood, I guess...