Tag: author
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Of Crises, Experience and Goals…
Surviving a crisis bestows special knowledge garnered and held by few. It also grants admittance into various orders of wisdom yielded by experience. Every novel or story a writer crafts tells the life of a certain crisis, and chronicles a central character’s survival of that crisis. The process of writing that novel flows out of…
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Of Judas, Kali, and Transcendence…
Without Judas, the Crucifixion may not have taken place. In the absence of Ma Kali, with her teeth dripping of blood, Lord Siva would have no consort to usher in a time of death and rebirth manifested through the fiery dance he performs when angry. Upon raising the knife above his head, Abraham, out of…
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Of Intermediate Regions, Hunger and Thirst…
There stands an intermediate region in the life and structure of a novel, that place between crossing the border of the opening and beginning and entering into a series of actions that lead to the penultimate center of the journey. It lies between the edge of that vast new world of survival that constitutes the…