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Shortly, I will be populating the Resources page. I'll post a note when this is ready.
Posting of episodes of Fex & Coo is now planned for Fridays. Episode 2 will be available later today.
Soon, I will be posting what I mean by "psychoactive."
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First to answer Rosaline 2: Yes, my book is THE IRON LABYRINTH, the 1st in a trilogy. The 2nd book with the shapeshifting women is THE CAVE OF THE DARK MOON & isn’t published yet. Thanks for looking. There’s an abduction in each book: one is down into the dark depths; the other is up into the surface, sunlit world.
Tanya, I feel a resonance with the idea of a past life connection between Owl Man & Foxy, and not one that happens on a linear line but instead is a “dropping down” or moving to a deeper level. That, too, is what I’ve wrestling or playing with in my writing. I find this quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE revealing:
“The most important thing I learnt on Tralamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, paThe Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. When any Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments.”
This reminds me, too, of John’s comment about dropping out of the “to be” into the “has been”, out of the Future into the Past — a momentary cross-section of our total selves, as they pass thru Time & Space.
I also think of Fex & Coo going deeper & farther out into Time & Space as the story unfolds, which demands either more & more courage from all the characters — or a kind of opening in them (& us) that our rational WITS part can’t handle alone.