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61. DR Derizan Glossary AdditionNEW TERMS GENERATED FOR THE STORY “DERIZAN’S JOURNEY” Term List – this list is formatted in the same way as is the Descending Road Glossary. New terms will eventually be incorporated in the full Glossary. A Aeben Teren the Time Beings, servant aspects of the Creator that grant access for ...
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62. DR ReviewsWHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT DESCENDING ROAD AND ITS WORLD The Prairies Book Review gave Descending Road a very positive going-over. Their one-line summary: “A remarkable tale that transcends genres with its seamless blend of science fiction, fantasy, psychology, spirituality, and dreams; a triumph.” Here is their full summary. Here ...
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63. DR Derizan Chapter 1THE WIND STOPPED ALTOGETHER Scene 1 “Nassa! Come back!” Darvelia screamed to her daughter against the bitter wind. A vast wall of clouds bore down on them, bending in from the north around a massive outcrop of granite above, and Darvelia clutched the sheet around herself and her son Shellane. ...
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64. Realities: A SampleREALITIES: Despair and Hope A Sample Essay 2014 THINGS BEHIND OUR EYES: WHY WE CAPITULATE I’ve been doing some very-interesting reading over the past year that helps draw back the curtain of murk over the thinking of many Americans concerning class and wealth. So far it seems to me that ...
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65. DR Derizan BackgroundBACKGROUND The story is DERIZAN’S JOURNEY. The scene below precedes the first new story scene added on Facebook. Exiles forced from the City have escaped their guarded column, and are now trying to find their way to some refuge in the mountains and the wind-driven snow. This band of exiles ...
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66. BW Short-short Sample 2CARBUNCLE “I hate this place,” I said. Manhattan clawed me at night. Every night I dreamed the Smoke Man and talked with him. Every night got longer. “Climb into the carbuncle,” he said into my dream, and so I did. A big red egg, split open along a jagged ...
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67. BW Short-short SampleTHE VISITORS ON THE FOURTH We drifted in gusts, sometimes quick like our photon brothers, sometimes slow like our electron sisters, swirling through the solar storms to this little planet coated with water. Water! Great swaths of it, tiny dribbles of it, long strings of it crossing humid land. We ...
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68. DR Derizan Sleethe MapMAP OF SLEETHE FOREST This map shows features of the great Sleethe, the mighty, central forest of Muathen, showing more detail of where Derizan's story is leading.
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69. DR Derizan Muathen MapMAP OF MUATHEN CONTINENT ON TARNUS This map shows features of the main continent on the planet, including those places and areas where Derizan's story is leading.
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70. Innovation IntroReality, Need, Invention, Fiction: The Glass Book © Dana Paxson 2024 How do we communicate innovation? It’s complicated. Our perceptions are deeply conditioned by our experience. Everything we learn in the course of life activates and reinforces patterns in our brains to make us faster, wiser, and subtler in ...
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71. Innovation: Some Thoughts on InventionSome Thoughts on Invention: Context and Vision for the Glass Book © Dana Paxson 2014 In a conversation several decades ago, I was talking with a respected Bahá’í about innovation, inventions, and ideas. From the conversation an insight emerged: rather than being some kind of property to which we can ...
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72. Innovation: Novel NotesNotes for a Novel: The Glass Book © Dana Paxson 2021 Conveying innovative ideas, especially when they seem out of reach, too impractical, or too imaginative to attract practical attention, can best be done in a fictional setting. The invention disclosure for the glass book, a device capable of preserving ...
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73. Innovation: The Glass Book InventionTHE GLASS BOOK © Dana W. Paxson 2024 Background of the Invention The world of publishing, including the publishing of text, images, and other presentations for human perception and cognition, has been revolutionized by electronics. To summarize the transformations now still in progress would be impossible, but overall we’ve seen ...
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74. DR GlossTestHere are the new terms in Derizan's Journey..
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75. DR COLL NOTESDescriptions of Colls Arcus The Arcus are the only ones who retain a kind of cross-family clan structure akin to the ancient system of the Iroquois Confederacy of ancient Earth. Marriages must align among clans, and those within the same clan cannot marry. Arcus Coll‘s power is written all across ...
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76. Invitation to EngageAN INVITATION My writing spans a broad range of fiction and nonfiction, with some works most comfortable combining the two. Everything I write is infused with the common themes of challenge and inspiration, of the great human journey in all its many shades of darkness, light, and color. I’m happy ...
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77. Brain Wrecks PurposeWHY I WROTE THIS BOOK What good is imagination? Does it treat wounds? Does it build roads? Does it cure diseases? Does it put food on the table? Does it raise children? Does it teach truth? Some might say No to all these questions. I say Yes to every single ...
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78. Enchantment, Magic, and KnowledgeENCHANTMENT, MAGIC, AND KNOWLEDGE The mathematician, the scientist, the thinker, the meditator, the mystic, all of them journey in a world most of us rarely sense or see. On certain occasions that world’s light leaks through to each of us, and we are smitten, transfixed, caught in the whisper of ...
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79. Leaves of a Mallorn SampleLEAVES OF A MALLORN: A Sample Essay BEING A HOBBIT We all love to see the little guy, the underdog, win the day. It may look corny or trite in some tellings, but prevailing against all odds makes a great story any time. And when the hero or heroine is ...
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80. Descending Road and its World: The Complete E-BookDESCENDING ROAD AND ITS WORLD: The Complete E-Book Get aboard your lander and dive onto a planet of adventure. A vast panorama awaits you in “Descending Road and its World”. The book wraps and weaves a sheaf of stories in a far world settled over twelve thousand years before ...
