In this article, the author David Williams analyses the history of photography in The Wars. Timothy Findley is an author who was capable of painting such vivid imagery into the readers mind so that it was if the reader were in a cinema. We can see a great example of Findley's wordplay in the prologue of the novel, "Half an hour later, the twelve cars stood quite empty and Robert was riding along the tracks behind a hundred and thirty horses with the dog trotting beside him. They were on the road to Magdalene Wood by 1 a.m. This was when the moon rose--red." (2)The imagery in this passage is incredibly powerful, by using the power of time and numbers, Findley paints an entire canvas in front of the readers eyes. In this image, Robert is seen riding along the abandoned rail road tracks behind a herd of exactly one hundred and thirty horses while his dog trots beside him and the stampede. The use of time is extremely significant to this scene as well, the stampede takes place at 1 a.m. when the moon rose not white... but red.
To help paint this scene into your head imagine these horses, but 130 of them followed by a boy on his own horse with a dog trotting alongside while the moon rises red in the background... all in a side-view shot!
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