Full Filler

The engineer has the indomitability to rise again and ask the most basic and devilish question.

"So, what's it about?"

This is my answer and I hope it shuts his ass up for awhile.

Take 103 prize winning essays/poems that establish a technical foundation, add a generational tone plus backstory narrative indulgences along with the recognition of reality amidst sudden, unexpected outbursts into  psuedo philosophic frenzy: mash those together with complex syncopations, overlapping characterizations and iffy punctuations… what emerges is an unforseen story that rises above chronological plot construction.

  When I discovered that I had prostate cancer, I decided to describe the journey wherever it may lead. It led to the past, the present and the future in random order. It led to untapped imagination beyond the restrictions of time. It led to a confluence of life journeys both external and internal. When organized, they came to resemble a story with beginnings, middles and conclusions.

Fiction and faction collide and produce autobiographical blarney

Is it a biography, a surrealistic autobiography, a novel, a collection of essays and poems that can be read in any order?

Yes, yes yes and yes.

Auto-biography propels us to confront reality, whatever that reality might be. Fiction allows us to escape and while fiction casts a light upon the society from which it emerges, the ultimate purpose is to entertain and make us feel better about our lives.

I hope our book entertains you and makes you feel better.

Whichever of us wrote it.

Ice Rivers

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