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Ideas About the Novel by Ortega y Gasset - my translation $3
Ideas About the Novel is a prophetic book. Years before academics and critics attempted to analyze the problems of the Novel, Jose Ortega y Gasset dissected it —and to some extent saved it— by pointing out that (1) the novel should show and not tell (2) the novel should move from plot to character, and (3) the novel as a non-transcendent art form—and much more.

Torquemada at the Stake by Perez Galdos- my translation $3
Next to Cervantes, Benito Perez Galdos is the most beloved Spanish writer of all times. In creating the anti-hero Torquemada, Galdos created a prototype that will endure the generations to come. Don Francisco Torquemada, usurer, business man, loving father, and tormented soul--is a character of unmatched peaks and psychological valleys. This fresh translation captures the experiences of 19th Century life in Madrid; all in contemporary English.

Lazarillo of Tormes - my translation $3
Read it in contemporary English -- No Thous, Thees, or King James' Bible language. Transliterated into easy language for enjoyable reading pleasure. Because The Lazarillo of Tormes pointed a new direction, European and American literature benefited with titles that today are considered classics: Cervantes’ Rinconete and Cortadillo; Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews; Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random, and Peregrine Pickle; Voltaire’s Candide; Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. And many others to include American works ranging from Mark Twain to Saul Bellow.

Dehumanization of Art by Ortega y Gasset - my translation $3
The Dehumanization of Art— is now a constant in music, literature, aesthetics, and philosophy, having come to mean that in post-modern times human-shaped mimesis (representation of the human) is irrelevant to art. According to Ortega, the arts don't have to tell a human story; art should deal with its own forms—and not with the human form.

Sentence Openers
How writers open their sentences makes prose agile, interesting, and athletic. This e-book teaches how to break the pattern Subject-verb-object--and discard openings that begin with nouns, articles, and pronouns.

East of Tiffany's - bestseller $5
With the city as its backdrop "East of Tiffany's" is filled with earnest tales of love, loss, faith, success and morality. While business terminology is interwoven throughout these short stories, it's not business lessons that I take away with me, but life lessons. The circumstances and the characters' profound humanity are relatable despite their zip code . "Luke, Postmodern Man" offers a new vista into faith, suffering, and love of neighbor. Way after you read this book you'll find yourself thinking about the various characters throughout the series of stories and will find solace in their unwavering faith. The narrators' ability to reflect on their hardships with such serenity is inspiring.



My writing was as flat as a sidewalk. And then I downloaded ...

Mary Duffy's Sentence Openers
After I purchased Mary's e-book I started to get 'A's in my essays and term papers! Every page is filled with great writing tips, training lessons, and wonderful useful writing skills! Not only do I write essays for college, but also short stories!
--Ivonnie Indrawan
College student
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Ideas About the Novel by Ortega y Gasset - my translation $3
Torquemada at the Stake by Perez Galdos- my translation $3
Lazarillo of Tormes - my translation $3
Dehumanization of Art by Ortega y Gasset - my translation $3
Sentence Openers
East of Tiffany's - bestseller $5

Mary Duffy and Marciano Guerrero's East of Tiffany's success stories

I wrote these success stories in 6 weeks and self-published the book. To date close to 800,000 people have read these stories. Fiction can be a source of pleasure and continued income as well. If you like writing--you can do the same and earn royalties for life!

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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Let philosophers look for the substance that underlies all of creation; that is the unreduced element of matter. Let mathematicians, astronomer, biologists, and physicists construct axioms and build a cosmos and so interpret reality within their limited models. Let linguists search for the Adamic language--but let master writers be free.

The fiction and non-fiction writer must be free to explore the depths of humanity. D. H. Lawrence said, "Being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher and the poet. The novel is the one bright book of life."

Yet, as disparate and chaotic as fine writers might seem to be, we can see that there's some method to their madness. Master writers will tell the reader what their novel is about right from the very beginning; they may not say it openly, but the hint is there for the reader to catch.

Tongue in cheek: Opening Sentence

Whether we like it or not sometimes we just have to go on reading as we ask ourselves, "Where's this going to?" If Jane Austen in her opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice uses the language of axioms and mathematics -"a truth universally acknowledged"- we have no choice but to assume that she is being not only lighthearted but also playful.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

Right away we feel that the novel will be humorous, light, and that the main theme will be about fortune and marriage.

A Sunday sermon: An opening Sentence

Having written his masterpiece, Ana Karenina, Tolstoy proceeds to write an opening sentence that would encapsulate what the long monster of a novel will be about. This is opening sentence what he came up with:

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

And unhappy families are the main attraction. I can just hear Tolstoy saying, "Anyone can write about happy families; there's nothing interesting about them. But since unhappy families are unique in their own ill-fortunes-let's be on our way, let me tell you about the Oblonsky's, the Levin's, and the Karenina's."

More than a dream-a nightmare: A masterful opening sentence

The Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez once declared that Kafka's opening of his novelette The Metamorphosis, convinced him that he could write equally --if not better-- fantastic stories.

To dare to write the following sentence opener and book opener, Kafka must have felt total intellectual freedom:

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

Lesser writers beg for the readers' indulgence and suspension of disbelief. Faced with the problem of verisimilitude most fiction writers agonize over this speed bump. Not Kafka. With one stroke of the pen he dunks his readers into the depths of a hellish nightmare.

A flash-forward and a flashback:A Violent Sentence Opening

Years of solitude, firing squads, colonels, the Buendias, ice, fathers, and distant afternoons is what Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is about.

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

Master writers distinguish between sentence openers, sentence openings, and first sentences. To ignore these basic concepts can only work to the detriment of the writer's creation.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Corporations are People Says Mitt Romney - What is the Definition of Corporation?

What is the Definition of ‘Corporation’?
A corporation is a business organized as a legal entity separate and distinct from its owners under state corporation law.

How Did Justice John Marshall Define ‘Corporation’?
In 1819 Chief Justice John Marshall defined a corporation as “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

 

Are Corporations People?
 Corporations are owned by people (shareholders or stockholders) who purchase the stock, but the corporation itself isn't a human being, or human beings, or people. People fall in love, they beget children, they can read and write--corporations don't have these attributes and many others that make people people.


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