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A quorum of influential thinkers set stage for a memorable drinking party circa 380 B.C. Between arguments and a garden variety of layers of wisdom the genesis of platonic love is revealed. It also becomes known that males are more intelligent, hence more attractive, that all men come from the sun, all women from the earth, the androgynous from the moon, and lesbians became so because of whatever was taken away from them when Zeus chopped them in half. Well, who said that philosophers are boring?
Easy reading book. A panhandler, an alcoholic mother, a lawyer behind the wheel of a bucket truck, a state trooper who despises women, a presidential candidate fond on social media, a coroner with a new set of scalpels, and a star maker with the latest technology. All in a mosaic, or better an orgy of life stories taped and narrated by the author himself.
Experience the dimensions of the most enigmatic characters in this mindscape of extreme storytelling. A computer geek makes people vanish. An English banker finances an elaborate operation of people decimation without weapons. A diarist tapes the weirdest people and make them real. A man obsessed with technology hires a tech genius to create the ultimate gadget―a phone with unusual applications. This is a collection of short stories, weird, troubling, and engaging. In Terror, moms were no longer carrying babies in their expensive strollers, they were hauling monsters. And the rest of the citizens were probably too sick and deteriorated to figure out the tragedy ahead. A state of emergency ...
A weekend trip to Lookout Mountain seems the perfect place for proposing her with a $22,000 diamond ring. Unfortunately, something goes terribly wrong. And there's a witness.
He had only one thing in his mind, take delivery of his brand new plane and fly to Taormina, in the isle of Sicily. At takeoff, he's the pilot and the only passenger who wants the sky all for himself; he even befriends a few clouds. Leg after leg the plane fills up quickly, somehow with interesting characters. Martina, a nosy young girl from the Broomfield Colorado aircraft service center; Mr. Patel, an unfortunate and confused shop owner from Canada, whose plan "to teach his wife a lesson" turns amusingly messy; Greenlandic Sister Antoinette, the most welcomed of all; and Sisto, an Italian photo comic star who becomes very fond of Martina--at a price. Some passengers become a drag to Alfonso's voyage; he complains and threatens to unload the undesirables, but he decides to carry on until the arrival into Sicily. In Taormina, Alfonso and Sister Antoinette nurture a true friendship, which soon leads to open questions, and perhaps controversy. What is up in the air?
The next time you are feeling anxious, irritable, angry, or impatient, notice it, observe it, hold it, and pay attention to it. Notice how your feelings keep fluctuating. Keep watching them, until your dissatisfaction becomes more tolerable. This is what self-awareness is. You don’t have self-awareness in the conventional sense of the word until you can see the person as a whole—yourself and your partner, the child, the loved one, the coworker, the friends, the family, and everything in between. To gain self-awareness, you have to be the one who develops it. In can't be done from a mental or emotional place of comfort. It requires a free-moving, self-reflective, mental state to be able t...
An enigmatic bon vivant makes a surprise visit to an old teacher who is now rich and powerful, but feels terribly lonely inside his own family. The mood is chaotic and everyone has an identity problem. "You came, you seduced every single one of us, and you destroyed everything." Who is this woman and what is she up to?
When a handful of underground currency traders set up a chat room to make a few bucks, they underestimated the disastrous effect on Banks and countries as their currency spun out of control. Suddenly an interesting offer is too good to give up, after all, they are just in for the money.
COULD YOUR DOUBLE live somewhere on another universe? Could you live a slightly different life at this very moment? Could another world truly exist? Experts believe there are a myriad of things out there; more than our eyes can see. Have you ever heard the term parallel universe? At least four types could dwell, and one is just around us. More are believed to float around the cosmos like bubbles with no sense of direction. They occupy the same time on different dimensions, and are totally invisible to our eyes. Where's my time machine and how soon can I get it?