Terra Incognita
And Other Stories
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Terra Incognita is a series of stories placed on an alphabetic framework stitched together loosely by characters re-appearing in them. The stories vary in style and form with a short verse and a short play thrown in for contrast. Issues are examined and while some characters take the initiative, others simply react to circumstances. They struggle through their allotted time, occasionally in flashbacks while subjected to the vicissitudes of life. Connections are made and connections are broken. Relationships develop along with the unspoken underlying notions of learning as an endless journey, and that the journey is as important as the destination. Search for true experience of being through identity and purpose is underlined in the initial story and later reprised with an implication that thoughtful reflection is useful and productive.
About the Author
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life despite an interest in literature and perhaps
because of it. As a youth his focus was sports:
football, baseball, tennis, bowling and sailboat
racing. He served in the Army twice, fi rst in Korea
and Japan following World War II and in Germany
during the Korean War. A graduate of Miami
University at Oxford, Ohio, he was employed by
the Postal Service where he held several positions
including a brief tenure as a postal inspector. He
retired as superintendent of operations. For many
years he directed and acted in community theater
groups and participated in Great Books discussion
programs. He has been involved in the Gurdjieff
Work for over twenty years. After his retirement
he wrote And So Forth And So On, Memoirs of an
Ordinary Man before turning to fi ction.