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Category Archives: ART
Paintings, photography, aesthetic objects, beautiful communication, and anything I consider to be art, artful, artistic, artsy or whatever.
Art is subjective. It is a quality of communication can be contributed to by the viewer through empathy or agreement with its creator.
MORTALITY MECHANICS MANUAL Audiobook (New!)
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Salutation
I am not The One. I am not The Creator.
Yet, I am holy and sacrosanct. I am more important and more powerful than The Gods.
Why? You say that I am. I control your existence.
Why? Because I promised you relief from eternal boredom, from the perpetual responsibility of self-amusement. Therefore, you follow my instruction without question.
Why? Because you claim you cannot bear to endure Eternity as The One.
You offer me your trust and praise. You submit yourself to pain, anguish, amnesia and mystery.
Why? Because you choose Not To Be. Your stupidity is its own reward and punishment. Your decadence ensures your slavery. Mortality is the key to your prison.”
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— An excerpt from Mortality Mechanic’s Manual, by Lawrence R. Spencer, 2012
BOOKS NO ONE EVER WROTE
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Are you a writer of novels? Do you sometimes run out of ideas for a new book or film concept? (Hollywood script writers take note….) Then you’ve stumbled on the right Blog! Here is an unabridged, alphabetical list of books that have been alluded to in novels by published writers, but have never actually been written. You don’t even have to worry about copyright infringement! Feel free to steal and plagiarize at will!
HERE ARE A SAMPLE OF TITLES CREATED BY REAL AUTHORS WHO INVENTED THEM AS A PART OF THEIR STORY:
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BAINBRIDGE, Mary: Winter Swan
—from Lisa Goldstein’s “Reader’s Guide”
BANDINI, Arturo: “The Little Dog Laughed,” “The Long Lost Hills,” untitled novel (“the story of Vera Rivkin”)
—from John Fante’s Ask the Dust
BANE, Joseph Cameron:
Cabot’s House
Lips That Could Kiss
Ruthpen Hallburton
The Wind at Morning
“others, others”—from Lawrence Block’s “With a Smile for the Ending,” in Enough Rope
BANION, Gerry: Sageknights of Darkhorn
—from Steve Hely’s How I Became a Famous Novelist
BANKS, Rosie M.: Mervyn Keene, Clubman; Only a Factory Girl; ‘Twas Once in May
—from P. G. Wodehouse, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
—from P. G. Wodehouse, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
BARBECUE-SMITH, Mr.: Pipe-Lines to the Infinite
—from Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow
BARR, Frank Walker:
Mythos and Tyrannos
Time’s Body—from John Crowley‘s Aegypt cycle
BARTH, Septon: Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyvern: Their Unnatural History
—from George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons
BASSETT, Clarence: The Bassett Family
—from Ross Macdonald’s The Barbarous Coast
BEAMISH, Alan: A Pox on the Box: Memoirs of a Disillusioned Broadcaster (Cape, 1993)
—from Jonathan Coe’s The Winshaw Legacy
BELDECAR: History of the Rhoynish Wars
—from George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords
—from George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords
BELZNER, Zalman: Beyond the Pale, Yeshiva Bokher
—from Joseph Epstein’s “Beyond the Pale”
BENDRIX, Maurice:
The Ambitious Host
The Crowned Image
The Grave on the Water-Front—from Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair
BIEDELMAN, Roz: Trampled Ivy
—from Heidi Julavits’s The Uses of Enchantment
BLAIR, Alan: I Pity I
—from Jonathan Ames’s Wake Up, Sir!
—from Jonathan Ames’s Wake Up, Sir!
BLAKE, Royden: “The Necklace of Malvio d’Alfi,” “The Wreck of the S.S. Lorelei,” “The King of the Trojans,” “The Lost Girdle of Venus”
—from John Cheever’s “A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear”
ALL THINGS LIVE FOREVER
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre
| Occupation | Novelist, scholar |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 19th & 20th century |
| Genre | Adventure, fantasy, fables, romance, sci-fi, historical |
| Subject | Africa |
| Notable works | King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain series, She: A History of Adventure |
FREE YOURSELF TO BE YOURSELF
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1001_Things_To_Do_While_You’re_Dead — An INTERVIEW with Lawrence R. Spencer
BE YOURSELF FOR A CHANGE.
“Relax. As a disembodied spirit you don’t have to hang around with people any more so you don’t have to try to impress anyone. In human society you are usually expected to look good, smell good, be good, do good and exhibit other behavior that may not come naturally to you.
For example, if you don’t take a bath for a few weeks your body will stink like a bag of rotten meat – which is essentially what it is. As a spirit you don’t have to shower, shave, brush your teeth, eat, go to work, pee or perform any of those nasty habits.
The 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) said, “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
So, forget all that stuff you were taught about “now I’m supposed to…”. Do what pleases you.”
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Excerpt from 1,001 Things To Do While You’re Dead: A Dead Persons’ Guide To Living, by Lawrence R. Spencer
