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High Rise by J.G. Ballard 134 pages
Amazon Link but by all means check it out from your local library

Set in a 40 story apartment building this taste of light fiction takes up the theme of Lord of the Flies with an alternative setting and similar, but not identical insights, into human psychological devolution. The story line follows the experience of three primary characters as a high rise full of professionals experiences an inexplicable transition into a tribal jungle of concrete, staircases, concourses and piles of garbage.

As the transformation begins the residents find the psychological outlet of the conflict more satisfying than their professional lives. They conspire to keep the authorities away from their island of primative battles and each night brings an escalation of the de-civilization of the night before. Darwinian...

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Last year, as most of you remember, I posted the first few chapters of Shut Down, my first novel, right here so you could read it first. It's been doing very well on Amazon and locally with many very kind...

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I'm not usually into poetry, but this reminds me of what we've lost. It's been years since I've seen one of these -

POETRY
Monarchs of the 70s
By Sheila E Sanchez Hatch

More astounding than snow in...

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On September 11th 2001 my wife and I arrived home from night shifts at a metropolitan hospital to the news that one of the two towers of the World Trade Center was burning. We followed events closely...

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On November 1, 2011 the citizens of Wisconsin will be able to apply for a license to carry a concealed weapon and I am glad. I have no intention of carrying on a regular basis, at least not initially,...

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At the beginning of the year I started working out. I'm in far better shape then I was before that and it's made a lot of things easier. I have recently been working my ass off. For the past week or...

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The monarchs are migrating through here right now. I hit one with the truck on the way home from town the other day and it made my son and me both really sad. I know they are more sparse than they used...

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While I am not catholic neither am I able to just pick the conviction that suits my desires.

in short: 1)I am called to love my enemy
2) putting a bullet in someone's chest is counter to love
3) a person...

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Thank you for your eloquence and honesty.

I do not make new year's resolutions. However, I do set goals.
This blog is an inspiration to me to spend this day in prayerful reflection as to one meaningful...

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This is a debate that has existed since the early Church and undoubtedly before its founding. Some relevant passages from the Catholic Catechism:

"Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle...

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Sin might be too harsh a term in it's strictest sense. It would be an occasion for repentance and a failure of faith. The early christians let their children go to the lions rather than be fostered to...

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