IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM
a novel by STAN I.S. LAW
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ISBN 978-0-9731184-8-3 |
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Novel., 315 pages |
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$24.95 IP $18.00 |
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His face as gray as an autumn's day, his habits
befitting a confirmed bachelor. In the secluded attic he rents
atop a Victorian B&B, Marvin Clark escapes into illusory
realities that are far richer than in the real world he rejects
yet is forced to inhabit.
Accidents happen. He falls down the old staircase
to land at the feet of a beautiful woman. Like a lightening of
intense vitality, Joselin, a passionate artist, storms into Marvin's
mundane existence. Dislodged from his comfortable if dull life,
Marvin awakens to a reality with which Jocelin seems permanently
imbued. Her pragmatic influence sends Marvin on a turbulent course
he can no longer prevent from unfolding.
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Chapter One
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Delicious
Monster |
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Even before the last Dominus vobiscum
the sweet smell of incense began to clear. What remained was
a halo suspended in a luminescent haze around the glittering
Monstrance.
"Et cum spiritu tuo",
echoed a murmur of the still sleepy voices. Then the final dismissal:
"Ite, Missa est." The mass was over.
"Deo gratias"
Marvin affirmed automatically.
The old priest, the tall boy
carrying the censer and two serving boys in short surplices left
the altar. As the fragrant mists slowly dissolved, Marvin's eyes
focused on a little red light guarding the sanctum sanctorum.
Ite, missa est... Once again it was time to go. The lad
who had been carrying the censer came back to put out the candles:
six perfectly steady flames in the perfectly still air of the
chapel. Then, only the tiny red light remained.
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Chapter 15 (excerpt) |
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A Dream |
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To
sleep, perchance to
dream...
There were moments in Marvin's
life when he could not truly define his state of consciousness.
He could swear that he had merely dreamt of a particular event.
He felt sure that he had dreamt of it at night in his bed, or
as he traveled - in the transcendent capsule of his unbridled
imagination. The problem was that while he could not pinpoint
the event in his wakened hours, he witnessed the results of his
dreams, or imagery, or travels, in the very solid world of objective
matter. The effects of an intangible dream-event had been manifested
in the tangible, objective reality.
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