Playing with Players: The Sacred and Profane meanderings of a Tax Auditor
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My Profile Picture is me diving off Bequia in 1988. What ir doesn’t show is this little fellow below meandering around on the ocean bottom. This shows the not quite endless youthfulness of a lobster. Lobsters are able to endlessly repair their DNA thereby avoiding senescence or old age. Not quite though because as it evolves its shell cannot change size and it succumbs to exhaustion in its constant molting.(Think, a knight without armor in a savage land from The Balla...d of Palladin (sung by Johnny Western) Have Gun Will Travel (1957-63). Furthermore the meandering creature’s mating process lasts just 10 seconds. Apparently one of the drawbacks of being eternally young is that you learn absolutely nothing about foreplay. A lobster contains both an individual self (the living, ever-young creature) and an institutional self common to its species (the shell). When institutions no longer keep up with the individual the self dies. When the self’s aspirations exceed the institution’s bounds the institution fades away.

The cover is an illustration by Gustave Dore (circa 1800's) showing a courteous and curiosity laden conversation between the Angel Raphael and the pre-fallen Adam and Eve from Book V of John Milton's "Paradise Lost". Its website: www.playingwithplayers.com

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My Profile Picture is me diving off Bequia in 1988. What ir doesn’t show is this little fellow below meandering around on the ocean bottom. This shows the not quite endless youthfulness of a lobster. Lobsters are able to endlessly repair their DNA thereby avoiding senescence or old age. Not quite though because as it evolves its shell cannot change size and it succumbs to exhaustion in its constant molting.(Think, a knight without armor in a savage land from The Balla...d of Palladin (sung by Johnny Western) Have Gun Will Travel (1957-63). Furthermore the meandering creature’s mating process lasts just 10 seconds. Apparently one of the drawbacks of being eternally young is that you learn absolutely nothing about foreplay. A lobster contains both an individual self (the living, ever-young creature) and an institutional self common to its species (the shell). When institutions no longer keep up with the individual the self dies. When the self’s aspirations exceed the institution’s bounds the institution fades away.

MESSAGE FROM THE IRREDEEMABLE DEEMING GUY Following below is the first review of my novel. Actually it’s not so much a review as it is an evaluation by my hybrid publisher, FriesenPress (FP), to ascertain its validity for publication. I chose the self publishing route over the traditional publishing route as the folks at FP treated me like family. I would like to drill down on my publishing experiences in future posts. These would include Manuscript Preparation, Editing,...Continue reading

Occasionally I wonder about how I would answer the question "Can you please explain your book in one sentence?" Used to think of the answer as "No One Is Above The Law." But then in my novel that phrase went through several iterations: No one is above the law. But everyone has Appellate processes available to dispute the law.... While No One is Above the Law it would appear that when tax laws are created and withheld Parliamentary assent they are subject to influence. So I settled upon a Yogi-ism, with some Miltonic influence: "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be!' Felix culpa!