Aldous Huxley wrote: -If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.- One might infer from this remark that seeing ourselves as others see us - and acknowledging our very obvious imperfections - is the beginning of true wisdom. Oscillating between parody, parable, and prophecy, ALL ABOUT EARTHLINGS is a work of hyper-realism. As author William F. Wu writes in his introduction, - it] is journalist W. E. Gutman's most chilling dystopia. The historical retrospectives that undergird his narrative and the...
Aldous Huxley wrote: -If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.-...
Morpheus Possessed is a book about dreams. In it, the author, who unabashedly shares some of his most graphic and bizarre visions, asks: Do we dream the life we live? Or are we the misshapen leftovers of someone else's wild imagination? Are the memories we erect and store along the way mere mental constructs lacking tangible reality? If life is a wakeful dream, is reality the lethal mirror image of the dreams we weave? One thing is clear: When we cease to dream, all that we are ceases to be. Everything else is a tawdry cliche.
About the Author: W. E. Gutman is a...
Morpheus Possessed is a book about dreams. In it, the author, who unabashedly shares some of his most graphic and bizarre visions, asks: Do ...
