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1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU'RE DEAD, FREE ADVICE, MOVING PICTURES, READING MATTER

A DEAD PERSON’S GUIDE TO LIVING

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This book is dedicated to all living beings who expect to die sometime and to all of the dead people who ever lived who may still be living somewhere, sometime, somehow. This book is also dedicated to all of the people who are living that may need some ideas about what to do with themselves after they die. Finally, this book is dedicated to all the people who will soon be living by virtue of one or more of the following circumstances: birth, rebirth, resurrection, reincarnation, transconfiguration, cryogenic resuscitation, invasion of alien beings, angels falling out of grace, an act of one or more gods, transformation or transmigration, arrival from a different time / space / universe / plane of existence, unimaginable others, Whoever you were, are, or will be, I trust that you will enjoy the “Rest of Eternity”.   — Lawrence R. Spencer

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HOW TO WRITE

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writing One contemporary writer who inspired me to write books is Neil Gaiman.  I’ve never had the honor of meeting him personally.  However, I’ve read many of his books. To that degree I feel as though I can perceive and share the essence of who he is, as a spiritual being.  His books, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere and The Graveyard Book are among my favorites. His books are marvels of mythological wit and wisdom.

MarkTwainsAutobiographyLikewise, I never met Mark Twain personally.  However,  I’ve read nearly all of his books, including the 1,496 page Autobiography of Mark Twain. Through his words he purveys his personal passion and pain; convictions about life, joy and empathetic anguish. Through his words, I discovered the tragedy of his realization, late in his life, that human existence is an ironic comedy of  cruelty, stupidity and despair.  Laugh or cry: it’s all the same.

I have been asked by several people: “How do you write books?”.

My advise is simple:

1) Live your life and be true to your own observations.

2) Write about what you know and believe in your soul.

3) Read the minds of Great Thinkers through their books.

The two profound and prolific writers I site above are exemplary (as well as hundreds of other literary masters too numerous to name individually), to wit:

4) Think and communicate your thoughts one word at a time in writing. Continue until you die.

May you survive in perpetuity through your words!

ART, FREE ADVICE, LIVES, POETIC NONSENSE, READING MATTER

SAINTS AND SINNERS

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Few people in history are better examples of the insane idea that people are either “saints” or “sinners”.   Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.  Posthumously, he is acknowledged as one of the principle writers in the “Golden Age of English Literature”.

READ ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

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https://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/

BULLSHIT, FREE ADVICE, INSIDE THE BOOK, READING MATTER, THE OZ FACTORS

CARNIVORE CANNIBAL COWS

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“You may remember a science fiction movie starring Charlton Heston called “Soylent Green”.  (Winner Best Science Fiction Film of Year, 1973 – Saturn Award, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films )

 

In the movie the character played by Heston discovers that the green pellets being served to people as food each day were being produced from the recycled remains of dead human bodies, making everyone into unwitting cannibals! Is this type of food production just science fiction?

Today, public relation campaigns and catchy slogans notwithstanding, we have a new food chain. For reasons of efficiency and economics, many cattlemen feed their animals anything. Repeat: anything.

Environmental reporters, Satchell and Hedges, tell us: “Agricultural refuse such as corncobs, rice hulls, fruit and vegetable peelings, along with grain byproducts from retail production of baked goods, cereals, and beer, have long been used to fatten cattle.”

The authors continue, “In addition, some 40 billion pounds a year of slaughterhouse wastes like blood, bone, and viscera, as well as the remains of millions of dead cats and dogs passed along by veterinarians and animal shelters, are rendered annually into livestock feed–in the process turning cattle and hogs, which are natural herbivores, into unwitting carnivores.”

Many of America’s once proud cattlemen have not only turned herbivores into carnivores, but have also turned their cows into cannibals!”

— excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS by Lawrence R. Spencer