In my recollections contained in the first 7 chapters of 'The Late Great Me', I didn't have euphoria about feeling special or a chosen one...it's a narrative which took years to settle on after self analysis and discussions with peers, regarding some kind of psychological disorder, or an uncertainty for me that the underlying principle of reality had shifted for me...it wasn't vague to me or mysterious...it exemplified to me, how my consciousness manifested in inconsistency, survived death and transcended my earthly reality, so as not to be confined to this dimension, as our physical bodies are...
To truly understand the dialogue in this recounting in the first 7 chapters, you would have to temporarily suspend religious dogma and scientific inflexibility...nothing that religion or science teaches you, can compare to the truth as I know it to be...
The proceeding chapters, deal with me coming to grips with closed brain damage and trying to make a life for myself, in a desperate world...the story culminates in a final recitation about how death taught me to live a life...that dialogue I'd decided to call 'The politics of being a cripple', but I then decided to add it to the original 'The Late Great Me', I had published in 2005...
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Whilst I was writing 'I came across a few splinters, as I slid down the banister of life', I was in tears of laughter everytime I opened the word processor to continue with the story...I had always wondered what it would be like to be the youngest of siblings, in a family environment...I am the oldest of 4 children and my youngest brother always told me that we taught him a lot as a family...
I did try to come to an understanding, in the madness of the story with the idea of getting older and all the ailments of the elderly...I suppose I settled on that story line, because growing older with a crippled body is really coming to play in my life these days...
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I have marketed these books using the self publishing route and have used 2 different publishing companies, one in the UK and one in the USA...the reason why I've chosen to do this is all as a matter of postage costs...from one country to another is exorbitant and as I mainly want my sales to be in these countries...
The link to the UK publisher is here:
The Late Great Me is published as a hardcover book and I'm busy preparing a paperback version for the UK outlet......'I came across a few splinters as I slid down the banister of life', is available only in paperback...if you're in the UK then use this link to purchase the books.
The link to the USA publisher is here:
The Late Great Me is published as a paperback book and is available in the USA only from this publisher...
The PDF's are available here:
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